Greetings,

The following is an HAProxy option httpchk check request. It's purpose
is to check a server's health by means of issuing a very lightweight
request to it. It does this, by default, using OPTIONS (it's possible
to configure it to perform any type of request, but OPTIONS is
aparently the most lightweight).

Nginx unfortunately returns a 405 to this. It's not really a big deal,
but is there anyway to "force" Nginx to return a 200 with an empty
payload or as small as possible? Would you still consider this a
lightweight check to perform every 2 or so seconds, on a few hundred
reqs/sec website?

127.0.0.1 - - [03/Jul/2009:17:34:21 +0100] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.0" 405
166 "-" "-"

Thanks for your time.

Pedro.