measure the latency and throughput of a webserver
# man httping
-b Use this switch together with -G. When this option is used, the transferspeed (in KB/s) is shown.
-G Do a GET request instead of a HEAD request: this means that also the complete page/file must be transferred.
Note that in this case youre no longer measuring the latency!
-c count
How many probes to send before exiting.
-l Connect using SSL: for this to work you need to give a ’ https’ -url or a 443 portnumber.
-s When a successfull transaction was done, show the HTTP statuscode (200, 404, etc.).
# httping -l -G -s -b -c 1 https://www.facebook.com/ PING www.facebook.com:443 (/): connected to 173.252.74.22:443 (791 bytes), seq=0 time=869.45 ms 200 OK 218KB/s --- https://www.facebook.com/ ping statistics --- 1 connects, 1 ok, 0.00% failed, time 1871ms round-trip min/avg/max = 869.4/869.4/869.4 ms Transfer speed: min/avg/max = 218.733000/218.732422/218.733000 KB
# httping -l -G -s -c 1 https://mail.google.com/ PING mail.google.com:443 (/): connected to 173.194.117.246:443 (434 bytes), seq=0 time=121.05 ms 200 OK --- https://mail.google.com/ ping statistics --- 1 connects, 1 ok, 0.00% failed, time 1124ms round-trip min/avg/max = 121.1/121.1/121.1 ms
# httping -G -s -c 1 http://www.amazon.com/ PING www.amazon.com:80 (/): connected to 54.239.17.6:80 (912 bytes), seq=0 time=566.94 ms 200 OK --- http://www.amazon.com/ ping statistics --- 1 connects, 1 ok, 0.00% failed, time 1569ms round-trip min/avg/max = 566.9/566.9/566.9 ms