Health check -- just connect, or full response?

John Norman john at 7fff.com
Tue Jan 19 20:52:42 CET 2010


Folks,

For the health check (or, ahem, "backend probe," as the docs has it --
ouch!), does "health" constitute ability to connect?

Or does it check for a 200?

Or get an entire page and verify that it's the right number of bytes . . . ?

Or . . . ?

In short, what constitutes a successful probe?

I'm using .url not .request

John



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