# Feature request: HTTP listeners
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 14, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811 "2010-02-14T18:54:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/1 "2010-02-14T18:54:53Z")
One of the things I'd like to be able to do, is to query one node about
the other http enabled nodes in the cluster (in the same was as you can
find out which nodes are data nodes)
In other words, one of my clients starts up, queries the 'main' node
about which listeners are available, then randomly selects one of those
nodes.
The idea is to spread the load between the nodes, and also, if a node
goes down, then my client already has a list of other nodes that it can
try connecting to.
Or am I approaching this in the wrong way?
ta
clint
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/2 "2010-02-14T18:58:05Z")
You are perfectly correct about it, and I need to add it to the nodes info
API. Can you open a feature request for this?
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote:
> One of the things I'd like to be able to do, is to query one node about
> the other http enabled nodes in the cluster (in the same was as you can
> find out which nodes are data nodes)
>
> In other words, one of my clients starts up, queries the 'main' node
> about which listeners are available, then randomly selects one of those
> nodes.
>
> The idea is to spread the load between the nodes, and also, if a node
> goes down, then my client already has a list of other nodes that it can
> try connecting to.
>
> Or am I approaching this in the wrong way?
>
> ta
>
> clint
>
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> Web Announcements Limited is a company registered in England and Wales,
> with company number 05608868, with registered address at 10 Arvon Road,
> London, N5 1PR.
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/3 "2010-02-14T19:16:00Z")
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:58 +0200, Shay Banon wrote:
> You are perfectly correct about it, and I need to add it to the nodes
> info API. Can you open a feature request for this?
> **[Issues · elastic/elasticsearch](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues#issue/10)**
>
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/4 "2010-02-14T19:30:52Z")
Fixed in master. You can download (with instructions on how to built it)
here: [http://www.elasticsearch.com/download](http://www.elasticsearch.com/download)
-shay.banon
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Clinton Gormley [clinton@iannounce.co.uk](mailto:clinton@iannounce.co.uk)wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:58 +0200, Shay Banon wrote:
>
> > You are perfectly correct about it, and I need to add it to the nodes
> > info API. Can you open a feature request for this?
>
> [Issues · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues#issue/10)
>
> 🙂
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/5 "2010-02-14T19:40:01Z")
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 21:30 +0200, Shay Banon wrote:
> Fixed in master. You can download (with instructions on how to built
> it) here: [http://www.elasticsearch.com/download](http://www.elasticsearch.com/download)
Brilliant - many thanks
clint
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/feature-request-http-listeners/2811/6 "2017-07-06T04:25:45Z")