[Network] Http Ping

Q100014: [Network] Http Ping

Send a basic HTTP GET request to the specified target URLs and retrieves response code.

Parameter In/Out Description Other Info
URL In The URL to retrieve via a get request.
UserAgent In Define a custom user agent to use for the request. Default: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; JobServerX) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36
Log output level In Choices: Minimal, Verbose
The level of execution detail you want to appear in the log.
Default: Minimal
ResponseCode Out The http response code from the requested URL.

(Italics = required parameters)

Notes

The name of this module [Network] Http Ping is a bit of a misnomer. There is no such thing as an HTTP Ping of course. So this module is really just a way of sending a plain HTTP GET request to a webserver. It is a little faster and easier than using the [Network] Http Action module to accomplish the same thing. But it is handy in that sometimes all that is needed is to send the HTTP GET request for a given URL on a website in order to cause the site to do something. Or sometimes even not do something because the webserver has received a request within a certain timeframe.

 
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