[K12OSN] way to test web connectivity

[Dan Young]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to run a test of connections through http, much like
> ping does, that would produce a list of how many connections made it
> to the website and how many got dropped so I could present them with a
> printout that says only 60% (or whatever) of the websites we try to go
> to actually make it?

http_ping is in Fedora:

"http_ping runs an HTTP fetch every few seconds, timing how long it takes."

http://www.acme.com/software/http_ping/

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
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