# Marvel question: An alternative for having to enable HTTP for data nodes?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-question-an-alternative-for-having-to-enable-http-for-data-nodes/21375>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 23, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-question-an-alternative-for-having-to-enable-http-for-data-nodes/21375 "2014-12-23T20:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![nickcanz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickcanz/32/44873_2.png) [@nickcanz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickcanz)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-question-an-alternative-for-having-to-enable-http-for-data-nodes/21375/1 "2014-12-23T20:52:34Z")

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We're testing out marvel and noticed that it causes failures unless HTTP is  
enabled for the node. This isn't ideal for data nodes that we've disabled  
HTTP on.

Is this just "the way things work" or is there an alternative I'm not aware  
of?

It's not a big deal, but does means we can't use the Sniffing Connection  
Pool that some clients support because it round robins across all nodes  
capable of HTTP traffic.

Thanks,

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Nick Canzoneri  
Developer, Wildbit [http://wildbit.com/](http://wildbit.com/)  
Beanstalk [http://beanstalkapp.com/](http://beanstalkapp.com/), Postmark [http://postmarkapp.com/](http://postmarkapp.com/),  
dploy.io

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/marvel-question-an-alternative-for-having-to-enable-http-for-data-nodes/21375/2 "2017-07-06T00:42:07Z")

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