1HTTPING(1) General Commands Manual HTTPING(1)
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6 httping - measure the latency and throughput of a webserver
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9 httping [options]
10 options: [-g url] [-h hostname] [-p portnumber] [-x proxyhost:port] [-c
12 count] [-i interval] [-t timeout] [-s] [-G] [-b] [-L xferlimit] [-X]
13 [-l] [-z] [-f] [-m] [-o rc,...] [-e string] [-I useragent string] [-R
14 referer string] [-r] [-n warn,crit] [-N mode] [-q] [-V]
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17 The program httping lets you measure the latency of a webserver. Since
18 version 1.0.6 also the throughput can be measured.
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21 -5 The proxy server selected is a SOCKS5 server.
22 -6 Enable IPv6 mode. Default is IPv4.
24 -a Audible ping
26 -b Use this switch together with '-G'. When this option is used,
28 the transferspeed (in KB/s) is shown.
29 -B Use this switch together with '-G'. Ask the HTTP server to com‐
31 press the returned data: this will reduce the influence of the
32 bandwidth of your connection while increasing the influence of
33 the processorpower of the HTTP server.
34 -c count
36 How many probes to send before exiting.
37 -D Do not draw graphs in ncurses mode (-K).
39 -e str When the status-code differs from the ones selected with '-o',
41 the given string is displayed.
42 -E Retrieve proxy settings from environment variables ('http_proxy'
44 and 'https_proxy').
45 -F Attempt TCP Fast Open while trying to connect to a server (for
47 Linux, version 3.7 onwards of the kernel)
48 -f Flood ping: do not sit idle between each ping but ping as fast
50 as the computer and network allow you to.
51 -G Do a GET request instead of a HEAD request: this means that also
53 the complete page/file must be transferred. Note that in this
54 case you're no longer measuring the latency!
55 -g url This selects the url to probe. E.g.: http://localhost/
57 -h hostname
59 Instead of '-g' one can also set a hostname to probe with -h: -h
60 localhost
61 -I str UserAgent-string to send to the webserver (instead of 'HTTPing
63 <version>').
64 -i interval
66 How many seconds to sleep between every probe sent.
67 -K Enable ncurses user interface.
69 -L x Use this switch together with '-G'. Limit the amount of data
71 transferred to 'x'. Note that this only affects the content of
72 the page/file and not the headerdata.
73 -l Connect using SSL: for this to work you need to give a
75 'https'-url or a 443 portnumber.
76 -m Show machine readable output (also check '-o' and '-e').
78 -N x Switches HTTPing to Nagios-plugin mode 2: return 0 when every‐
80 thing is fine, 'x' when anything fails. E.g.: 1 => Nagios warn‐
81 ing state, 2 => Nagios critical state.
82 -n warn,crit
84 Switches HTTPing to Nagios-plugin mode 1: return exitcode '1'
85 when the average response time is bigger then 'warn', return
86 exitcode '2' when the the average response time is bigger then
87 'crit'. In all other cases return exitcode '0'.
88 -o x,x,...
90 This selects the HTTP status-codes which are regarded as an OK-
91 state (only with '-m').
92 -p portnumber
94 -p can be used together with -h. -p selects the portnumber to
95 probe.
96 -q Be quiet, only return an exit-code.
98 -R str Referer-string to send to the webserver.
100 -Q Use a persistent connection, i.e. reuse the same TCP connection
102 for multiple HTTP requests. Usually possible when 'Connection:
103 Keep-Alive' is sent by server. Adds a 'C' to the output if
104 httping had to reconnect.
105 -r Only resolve the hostname once: this takes the resolving out of
107 the loop so that the latency of the DNS is not measured. Also
108 useful when you want to measure only 1 webserver while the DNS
109 returns a different ip-address for each resolve ('roundrobin').
110 -S Split measured latency in time to connect and time to exchange a
112 request with the HTTP server.
113 -s When a successfull transaction was done, show the HTTP status‐
115 code (200, 404, etc.).
116 -T x Read the password for website authentication from file 'x'
118 (instead of entering it on the command line).
119 -t timeout
121 How long to wait for answer from the other side.
122 -U Enable authentication against website. Set username with -U, set
124 password with -P (or -T to read the password from a file).
125 -v Increase verbosity mode. To show standard deviation and dates in
127 output.
128 -W Do not abort program if resolving fails.
130 -X Use this switch together with '-G'. For each "ping" show the
132 amount of data transferred (excluding the headers).
133 -x proxyhost[:port]
135 Probe using a proxyserver. Note that you're also measuring the
136 latency of the proxyserver!
137 -Y Enable colors
139 -z When connecting using SSL, display the fingerprint of the X509
141 certificate(s) of the peer.
142 --abbreviate
144 Abbreviate values bigger than thousand, million, billion, etc.
145 --adaptive-interval or --ai
147 (Try to) ping on the same interval. E.g. if interval is set to
148 1.0 seconds and ping a ping t[n] occurs at 500s with duration
149 250ms, then the next ping (t[n+1]) will happen at 501 seconds
150 and not at 501.25 seconds. Of course when the ping duration is >
151 bigger than the interval, a ping will be "skipped" (not liter‐
152 ally: the sequence number will continue) and t[n+1] will then be
153 e.g. 502s instead of the expected 501s. This is useful for exam‐
154 ple in the ncurses output mode where an fft is calculated over
155 the ping times.
156 --aggregates x[,y[,z[,etc.]]]
158 Show aggregates every x[/y[/z[/etc]]] seconds.
159 --divert-connect x
161 Ignore the hostname in the URL and connect to 'x' instead. The
162 given URL will be requested at 'x'.
163 --draw-phase
165 Not only draw the magnitude of the fourier transform, draw the
166 phase as well.
167 --graph-limit x
169 If values measured are bigger than x, then they're limitted to
170 x.
171 --header x
173 Add an additional request-header 'x'.
174 --keep-cookies
176 When the server sends a cookie, it will be returned in the next
177 request.
178 --max-mtu x
180 Maximum MTU to use. Cannot be larger than network interface MTU.
181 --no-host-header
183 Do not put a "Host:"-header in the request header.
184 --no-tcp-nodelay
186 Do not disable "tcp delay" (Naggle).
187 --priority x
189 Set priority of packets.
190 --tos x
192 Set type of service.
193 --proxy-user x
195 Use username 'x' to authenticate against proxy (http/socks5)
196 server (optional).
197 --proxy-password x
199 Use password 'x' to authenticate against proxy (http/socks5)
200 server (optional).
201 --proxy-password-file x
203 Read password from file 'x' to authenticate against proxy
204 (http/socks5) server (optional).
205 --recv-buffer x
207 Set the size of the receive buffer (in bytes).
208 --slow-log x
210 When the duration is x or more, show ping line in the slow log
211 window (the middle window).
212 --threshold-red x
214 If the measured threshold is higher than x (and -Y is given),
215 then the shown value is colored red. If you also use --thresh‐
216 old-yellow, then this value must be bigger.
217 --threshold-yellow x
219 If the measured threshold is higher than x (and -Y is given),
220 then the shown value is colored yellow.
221 --threshold-show x
223 If the measured threshold is higher than x, then the result is
224 shown (default is show always). The value x is in ms.
225 --timestamp or --ts
227 Put a timestamp before the result-lines. Use -v to also show a
228 date.
229 --tx-buffer x
231 Set the size of the transmit buffer (in bytes).
232 -V Show the version and exit.
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237 In split mode (-S) something like
238 "time=0.08+24.09+23.17+15.64+0.02=62.98 ms" is shown. The first value
239 is the time it took to resolve the hostname (or 'n/a' if it did not
240 resolve in this iteration, e.g. in "resolve once" (-r) mode), then the
241 time it took to connect (or -1 for example in persistent connection
242 (-Q, HTTP v1.1), after that the time it took to put the request on the
243 wire, then the time it took for the HTTP server to process the request
244 and send it back and lastly the time it took to close the connection.
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248 The graph in the ncurses uses colors to encode a meaning. Green: value
249 is less than 1 block. Red: the value did not fit in the graph. Blue:
250 the value was limitted by --graph-limit. Cyan: no measurement for that
251 point in time.
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255 Press <CTRL> + <c> to exit the program. It will display a summary of
256 what was measured. In the ncurses gui, press <CTRL> + <l> to forcibly
257 redraw the screen. Press 'H' to halt the graphs (and again to con‐
258 tinue). Press 'q' to stop the program (<CTRL> + <c> will work too).
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262 httping -g http://localhost/
263 Ping the webserver on host 'localhost'.
264 httping -h localhost -p 1000
266 Ping the webserver on host 'localhost' and portnumber 1000.
267 httping -l -g https://localhost/
269 Ping the webserver on host 'localhost' using an SSL connection.
270 httping -g http://localhost/ -U username -P password
272 Ping the webserver on host 'localhost' using the Basic HTTP
273 Authentication.
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276 None. This program is totally bug-free.
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280 http://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
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284 This page describes httping as found in the httping-2.3 package; other
285 versions may differ slightly. Please mail corrections and additions to
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