> On Jan 20, 2016, at 3:34 AM, Rainer Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Am 20.01.2016 um 01:57 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>> Right now GET and CPING (as well as provider) is on my
>> TODO, in fact, they are currently set as "unimplemented"
>> although the hooks are there.
>> 
>> The main issue is that we need to worry about a (possibly)
>> large response body and some method of checking against
>> that. I have some ideas, but it's not as "easy" as it
>> was using ap_expr.
> 
> I wouldn't worry to much about the resource use in case of large response 
> bodies. As long as we warn in the docs. Most uses of this advanced feature 
> should end up using a special probing page in the backend (application). GET 
> instead of HEAD is nice though, because that page can include some small 
> status info which can be evaluated using the expr.
> 

The only thing I can't figure out yet is that ap_expr doesn't
seem to be able to work on the response *body*, at least,
I haven't seen where it is able to do so. So I'll need to figure
out how to "trick" it to do so.

> Cool stuff!
> 

Thx!

> Regards,
> 
> Rainer

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