Hank Beaver » F5 http://www.hankbeaver.com Ruby, open-source, Internet technologist located in Atlanta, GA, USA Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:34:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 F5/BigIP Healthcheck against Thin/Sinatra app http://www.hankbeaver.com/index.php/2009/06/05/f5bigip-healthcheck-against-thinsinatra-app/ http://www.hankbeaver.com/index.php/2009/06/05/f5bigip-healthcheck-against-thinsinatra-app/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:18:01 +0000 hbeaver http://www.rubyslacker.com/?p=87 When using a BigIP to load balance a Sinatra app via Thin you will need to provide more than just the GET request string in F5’s “send string” field OR you might get “Request Invalid!” error message. Heads up.

Using this will cause issue:

GET /ops/heartbeat

This works:

GET /ops/heartbeat HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: \r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n

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