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The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: HTTPing

WEB CHECK

Author(s): CHARLY KÜHNAST

HTTPing may be the perfect tool to check on the health of your web server.

Between visits to the dentist, my job depends on my users’ subjective impressions. If a web server reacts slowly, the typical reaction is something like “Hey, why’s the server so slow today?” But how “slow” is slow? If a single machine is having a bad day, it is quite simple to individually check its health state. Things start becoming more complicated if a remote machine is off-key and I only have HTTP access.


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