adlibre / ssl-ping

Simple utility to ping an HTTP or HTTPS server

SSL Ping

Simple utility to ping an HTTP or HTTPS server. This is useful for troubleshooting intermittent network issues, or networking issues that result in packet corruption (bit pattern errors) etc.

Usage

ssl-ping https://example.com

or

ssl-ping http://example.com --ignore-errors

Compiling

To compile for standalone usage on windows.

1. Install Python 2.7 for Windows (python.org)

2. Install PyWin32 extensions for Windows (sourceforge.net)

3. Install pip (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py)

4. Install PyInstaller

   pyinstaller -F ssl-ping.py

This will build a standalone .exe with the bundled cacert.pem.

Docker

This can be run with Docker.

docker run --rm -t -i docker.io/adlibre/ssl-ping https://example.com