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There should be official services for that. I'm sure Google (or in Germany, heise.de, which publishes multiple IT-related magazines since forever) sees a lot of
by luckylion 4y ago
There should be official services for that. I'm sure Google (or in Germany, heise.de, which publishes multiple IT-related magazines since forever) sees a lot of that as well. The BBC's home page currently weighs in at around 45kb compressed or 230kb uncompressed. Imagine how much traffic is needlessly generated just by connectivity checks, not to speak of the amount of computing power.
- neurostimulant 4y agoSome internet connectivity check endpoints I see in my home networks: - http://detectportal.firefox.com http://detectportal.firefox.com - http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt - http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 - http://captive.apple.com http://captive.apple.com - http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt http://www.msftconnecttest.com/connecttest.txt - http://api.ipify.org http://api.ipify.org The manjaro one will respond with "NetworkManager is online" when accessed from curl, but redirect to manjaro homepage when accessed from a browser.
- xxpor 4y agoA good use case for using HEAD instead of GET
- alex_suzuki 4y agoAncient wisdom… easily forgotten.
- rtkwe 4y agoThere are alternatives like simply pinging the servers or one of the many alternative DNS servers like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 that are out there.