Package 'httping'

Title: 'Ping' 'URLs' to Time 'Requests'
Description: A suite of functions to ping 'URLs' and to time 'HTTP' 'requests'. Designed to work with 'httr'.
Authors: Scott Chamberlain [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Scott Chamberlain <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.3.0
Built: 2026-05-21 05:52:07 UTC
Source: https://github.com/sckott/httping

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Ping a url, doing a single call, with any http verbs

Description

Ping a url, doing a single call, with any http verbs

Usage

ping(url, verb = GET, ...)

Arguments

url

A url
verb

(character) An http verb, default: httr::GET()
...

Any httr verb parameters passed on to those functions

Examples

## Not run: 
"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping()
ping("https://mockbin.com/request")
"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping(config=verbose())
ping("https://mockbin.com/request", config=verbose())
"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping(config=c(verbose(), accept_json()))

"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping()
"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping(verb=HEAD)
"https://mockbin.com/request" %>% ping(verb=PUT)
"https://google.com" %>% ping()

# pass just a port number, tries to resolve, fails if not found
# "9200" %>% ping()
# 9200 %>% ping()
# 9200 %>% ping(verb=POST)
# 9200 %>% ping(verb=HEAD)
# ping(9200)
# ping("9200")

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Ping a url to time the request

Description

Ping a url to time the request

Usage

time(.request, count = 10, delay = 0.5, flood = FALSE, verbose = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

.request

A httr response object
count

integer, Number of requests to do.
delay

integer, Seconds to delay successive calls by. Default: 0.5 seconds.
flood

logical; If TRUE, no delay between requests. If FALSE, delay by 0.5 second.
verbose

logical; If TRUE, print progress.
...

Further args passed on to functions in httr

Examples

## Not run: 
GET("https://mockbin.com/request") %>% time()
GET("https://api.github.com") %>% time()
GET("http://google.com") %>% time()

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