Problem with connection testing

[1earthling]

Hi,

I'm running monit 4.7,  trying to monitor a remote webserver and monit reports:

 MyServer Connection failed [HTTP] at port 80

In my monitrc file:

check host MyServer with address x.y.z
        if failed url 
http://FQDN/alive then alert

I verified traffic with tcpdump and my webserver access log file has the following entries:

<ip removed> - - [12/Apr/2006:23:29:33 -0700] "GET /alive HTTP/1.1" 200 3 "-" "monit/4.7"

I even tried checking localhost in the same and it fails also. Other service checks work fine.

Any ideas ?

Thx-