# Http output for filebeat?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-for-filebeat/62137>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [October 4, 2016, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-for-filebeat/62137 "2016-10-04T09:27:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/http-output-for-filebeat/62137/5 "2016-10-04T12:01:20Z")

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which filebeat version are you using? The `ES Ping` used to use `HEAD` requests, unfortunately disallowed by some HTTP proxies. 5.0 will use `GET`.

For generic HTTP see this discussion: [Output beat events as plain HTTP POST](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/output-beat-events-as-plain-http-post/57923)

Code here: [https://github.com/raboof/beats-output-http](https://github.com/raboof/beats-output-http)

You have to compile the beat yourself though + it's not really supported by elastic.

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