Varnish failing to detect valid probe page

[Guillaume Quintard]

You found the issue:
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/2069

This is "fixed" in master. But maybe you can fix your backend?

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Guillaume Quintard

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Guillaume Quintard

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 6:22 PM, <Victor.Grazi at nomura.com> wrote:

> I am having a problem with Varnish 3.x probe page from a SpringBoot
> application (1.4). Varnish is failing to detect the probe page (returns 503
> SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE) and consequently fails to route.
>
> When I manually ping the probe URL, it works fine, but Varnish is flagging
> the probe page as being down.
>
> Removing the probe page, everything works fine.
>
> Pointing to a static probe page (my.css) or any other static or dynamic
> URL fails.
>
> Looking at the logs, the response header looks like this:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200
>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8
>
> Content-Length: 72
>
> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:20:48 GMT
>
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
>
>
> Comparing this to other working (non Spring Boot) applications, the only
> difference is that the working applications have an OK after the response,
> and the bad ones don't: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Does that mean anything?
>
> For example, here is a good one:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>
> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 14:04:18 GMT
>
> Last-Modified: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:00:02 GMT
>
> Content-Type: text/css
>
> Content-Length: 129
>
> Server: Jetty(9.3.z-SNAPSHOT)
>
> Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
>
> Connection: Keep-Alive
>
>
>
> Not sure where else to look! Any clues?
>
>
>
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