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Brian_Saunders1
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Sep 24, 2013

Monitor HTTP Page for Text

Hello All,   I'm trying to setup a custom health monitor that monitors a page for specific text. I've read through the forums and the SOLs but haven't found a resolution to my particular situatio...
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StephanManthey
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Sep 24, 2013

I would use i.e. httpfox (Firefox plugin) to verify the requests and responses from scratch. Perhaps a real browser gets redirected (302) first and / or the content will show up only after receiving a session cookie being retransmitted by the client.

 

Actually I had exactly the same issue a couple of months ago with a customer and we simply parsed for a '302'. Ironically we received a '200', if the gateway was inoperable. So you may add the '200' to the monitor disable conditions.