509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded

[Ben Harris]

Hi there,

I'm currently working on a script to kind of detect if a site is down, or isn't as it should be. It is all working fine, but one of the things I was working on was identifying sites which have exceeded their bandwidth limit. I thought this would be easy as the Bandwidth Limit Exceeded page had its own HTTP status code, but when I came to test it out on an account which had exceeded its bandwidth limit, it would not work.

(I would like to add here that I know I can view accounts over their bandwidth limits within WHM, the script I am designing however needs to be able to identify the sites "status" no-matter which server the site is on)

I looked into it further, and it turns out that the page is actually returning a 500 Internal Server Error page and not the 509 status code.

I took a look in /usr/local/cpanel/apache/mod_bwlimited.c and I can see clearly that the status code is defined in it, and it all looked OK.

Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Is it a bug or just my server?

Regards,

Ben