httping

With httping, user can provide an URL, and the software will display how long it takes to connect to it.

httping will also send a request and retrieve the reply, but only from the headers.

What is new in this release:

• This release adds many small fixes. The most important is that this release can connect over IPv6 to proxy servers.

What is new in version 2.3.1:

• More detailed statistics, the ability to configure all kinds of network settings, localization, improvements to error messages and on-line help, and improvements to the GUI mode.

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• mostly a bugfix release (segfaults, FreeBSD build fixes)

What is new in version 2.2:

• This version adds an adaptive ping-interval and an (entirely optional) ncurses GUI interface.

What is new in version 2.1:

• This version fixes compilation problems on FreeBSD, retrieves proxy settings from the environment, implements proxy authentication, resolves the IP address of a proxy only once, and adds HTTPS proxying support.

What is new in version 2.0:

• This version adds a JSON output mode, socks5 proxy support, timeouts in SSL, timestamps, standard deviation calculation and aggregates, colorized output, many fixes, and small enhancements.

What is new in version 1.5.8:

• This version adds a -T switch which makes it read the password for http basic auth from a file and -W which makes it keep on trying to resolve a host if it fails to do so.

What is new in version 1.5.7:

• This version fixes a NULL pointer segfault which occured when a timeout happened.

What is new in version 1.5.6:

• Added "TCP fast open" support (thanks to Ketan Kulkarni)