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Jason_Keating
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Jun 16, 2009

Custom https monitor inserting /pub into GET

I've created a custom HTTPS monitor using a specific port - *:1234

 

I have a custom send string "GET /something/anotherThing" however the server sees requests for /pub/something/anotherThing.

 

 

I've not seen a monitor do anything like this before, but I've also not customised an HTTPS monitor before. The server is on the other side of a firewall->NAT->VPN->firewall->Business partner, and I plan to simply point the monitor at one of my own https servers tomorrow for comparison.

 

 

Has anyone ever seen anything like this before ?

 

 

Cheers

 

J
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    hooleylist
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    Jun 16, 2009
    I haven't seen this before. I would guess that the issue isn't with the monitor configuration or the BIG-IP, but with either an intermediate device which decrypts the SSL or the web server itself. Your plan for testing on a server you control is a good one. I expect you'll not see the issue there.

     

     

    You can also enable debug on the monitoring daemon, bigd, to see the request and response send/received for the monitoring. You can enable debug from the command line using 'b db bigd.debug enable' and disable it using 'b db bigd.debug disable' . It can create a large amount of output (logged to /var/log/bigd.debug) so don't leave the debug enabled for longer than necessary.

     

     

    Aaron