I'm sorry, the patch file was created in the wrong order. Here is a new
one.
Regards
Volker
//> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:29:54 +0100,
//> Volker Dormeyer <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> ldirectord does HTTP/HTTPS health checking by the HTTP GET method. I
> know of some people and one of our customers who would like to use the
> HTTP HEAD method for health checking to avoid the retrieval of an entire
> web page. Which in turn results in a log entry of the web server and
> after all in a web page hit.
> Thus, I wrote a small patch to make ldirectord able to issue HTTP HEAD
> requests for HTTP/HTTPS health checking. The attached patch adds an
> additional config file parameter "httpmethod" which can be either "GET"
> or "HEAD". It defaults to "GET", if it is not set in order to not break
> any existing setups.
> What do you think about it? Contructive ideas or criticism are welcome!
> Maybe this was discussed some time ago.
> Regards
> Volker
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> Volker Dormeyer <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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