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Zany_Zachary1
Asked: 2020-04-15 06:44:54 +0800 CST

Ping specific web addresses?

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I'm making a bash script to ping a certain web address. The problem is, when I say:
ping https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word then ping says
ping: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word: Name or service not known
Can somebody please help me with this? What is a program that I can use to ping an https server.
I have to have the slashes there because I want to ping that certain page.
Thank you in advance.

bash ping https

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use httping:

    httping https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word

    If you want to check if your word exists, you need to specify, that only Status 200 is OK.

    httping -m -o 200 https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word

    And maybe add -c 1 to exit after 1 probe and -l to avoid the Info message that SSL was auto enabled.

    Output:

    $ httping -l -m -o 200 -c1 https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word
69,734001
$ httping -l -m -o 200 -c 1 https://www.dictionary.com/browse/not_existing_word
-1

    Install via

    sudo apt install httping

    Alternative, if httping is not available, of course it is possible with curl to print the status code of a request only.

    $ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/word
200
$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/not_existing_word
301
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  2. Ping only understands hostnames and ip-addresses. So in your example it should be:

    ping www.dictionary.com

    But even this isn't sure to work, because icmp packets (which ping is a part of) might be blocked in router or firewalls along the way to the destination.

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