probes::EchoPingHttp.pm(3)

probes::EchoPingHttp.pm3

An echoping(1) probe for smokeping

Overview

Measures HTTP roundtrip times (web servers and caches) for SmokePing.

Synopsys

 *** Probes ***
 + EchoPingHttp

 binary = /usr/bin/echoping # mandatory

 *** Targets ***

 probe = EchoPingHttp

 + PROBE_CONF
 url = / 
 ignore_cache = yes
 revalidate_data = no
 port = 80 # default value anyway
 timeout = 50 # default is 10s

Overview

Supported probe-specific variables: those specified in EchoPing(3pm) documentation.

Supported target-specific variables:

those specified in EchoPing(3pm) documentation: except fill, size and udp.

url: The URL to be requested from the web server or cache. Can be either relative (/...) for web servers or absolute (http://...) for caches.

port: The TCP port to use. The default is 80.

ignore_cache: The echoping(1) "-A" option: force the proxy to ignore the cache. Enabled if the value is anything other than 'no' or '0'.

revalidate_data: The echoping(1) "-a" option: force the proxy to revalidate data with original server. Enabled if the value is anything other than 'no' or '0'.

timeout: The echoping(1) "-t" option: Number of seconds to wait a reply before giving up. For TCP, this is the maximum number of seconds for the whole connection (setup and data exchange).