CheckHTTP

A simple sensor for gather curl stats against an HTTP endpoint.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'check_http'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install check_http

Usage

Via the command line:

$ check_http http://www.github.com
# return_code=ok total_time=0.209625 connect_time=0.111266 namelookup_time=0.028197 effective_url=http://www.github.com primary_ip=207.97.227.243 response_code=301 redirect_count=0 url=http://www.github.com

You can also stream urls into it:

$ cat list_of_urls.txt | check_http

There is also support for an advanced input mode:

$ echo url=http://google.com location=my_house | check_http
# results will include the location key and any other keys you place in the input stream

Via the lib:

require 'check_http'
CheckHTTP.check('http://github.com')
# => {:return_code=>:ok, :total_time=>0.143415, :connect_time=>0.080599, :namelookup_time=>0.023286, :effective_url=>"http://github.com", :primary_ip=>"207.97.227.239", :response_code=>301, :redirect_count=>0, :url=>"http://github.com"}

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request