httping

A ping-like tool for HTTP(S). Written in Go.

Install

Precompiled binaries

You can download precompiled binaries for Windows (amd64) and Linux (amd64, arm64) here.

From source

Requires Go 1.21 or higher.

git clone https://github.com/GitRowin/httping.git
cd httping
go install

Usage

Usage: httping [options] <url>
  -count uint
        Number of requests to send
  -delay uint
        Minimum delay between requests in milliseconds (default 1000)
  -disable-compression
        Whether to disable compression
  -disable-h2
        Whether to disable HTTP/2
  -enable-keep-alive
        Whether to use keep-alive
  -no-new-conn-count
        Whether to not count requests that did not reuse a connection towards the final statistics
  -timeout uint
        Request timeout in milliseconds (default 5000)
  -user-agent string
        Change the User-Agent header (default "httping (https://github.com/GitRowin/httping)")

Example: httping -count 10 -disable-compression -timeout 1000 https://example.com/

Fields explained

• dns: Time taken to resolve the domain
• conn: Time taken to create the TCP connection
• tls: Time taken to complete the TLS handshake
• ttfb: Time taken to receive the first byte of the response ("Time To First Byte")
• total: Total time taken (DNS, TCP, TLS, send request, receive response)
• reused: Whether the TCP connection was reused to send the request
• proto: Used HTTP protocol
• status: The status returned by the server
• error: The error message