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Re: ldirectord and HTTP GET/HEAD [patch]

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Subject: Re: ldirectord and HTTP GET/HEAD [patch]
From: Volker Dormeyer <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:34:19 +0100
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

  > -- 
  >  Volker Dormeyer    <volker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>





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