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dreftymac
dreftymac

Reputation: 32450

programmatic automated way to determine: is my site reachable?

Question: I need a way to automate routine tests that tell me if my website is reachable from remote addresses. Local tests and scripts from my own machines are not enough because these tests are inconclusive (return false positives).

Is there a service or programming trick I can use to routinely attempt to connect to my site where the connections are always external to my local subnet?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 228

Answers (2)

fbonnet
fbonnet

Reputation: 2299

You can use cURL with an external proxy.

Upvotes: 1

Shane C. Mason
Shane C. Mason

Reputation: 7615

You could sign up with a proxy service and then make http requests to that URL. That way, the data is first retrieved from their host, which would be external to you.

Upvotes: 2

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