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List:       mon
Subject:    Re: MON and Xstop
From:       Charlie Watts <cewatts () frontier ! net>
Date:       2002-03-19 22:33:14
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bates, C Thomas wrote:

> Just in case anyone else is trying to run MON in a network with an Xstop box
> (which blocks unbusiness-like sites), you will need to make sure that your
> monitoring scripts put all the HTTP in a single packet, as a browser would.
> Otherwise, about 1% of the tests will get blocked by Xstop. A workaround is
> to consolidate the Perl print statements into a single line, e.g.,
>
> print S "GET $Path HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $Server\r\nUser-Agent:
> $USERAGENT\r\n\r\n";

That's good info to know - I'm trying to demo an X-Stop box in the near
future ... and that sounds like a bug.

-- 
Charlie Watts
cewatts@frontier.net
Frontier Internet, Inc.
http://www.frontier.net/

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