http_ping is like the regular ping command, except that it sends HTTP requests
instead of ICMP echo requests.

Sample run:

> http_ping -count 5 http://www.example.com/
7816 bytes from http://www.example.com/: 246.602 ms (9.923c/23.074r/213.605d)
7816 bytes from http://www.example.com/: 189.997 ms (11.619c/22.971r/155.407d)
7816 bytes from http://www.example.com/: 190.463 ms (8.994c/25.091r/156.378d)
7816 bytes from http://www.example.com/: 190.07 ms (9.234c/23.9r/156.936d)
7816 bytes from http://www.example.com/: 190.706 ms (10.142c/46.579r/133.985d)

--- http://www.example.com/ http_ping statistics ---
5 fetches started, 5 completed (100%), 0 failures (0%), 0 timeouts (0%)
total    min/avg/max = 189.997/201.568/246.602 ms
connect  min/avg/max = 8.994/9.9824/11.619 ms
response min/avg/max = 22.971/28.323/46.579 ms
data     min/avg/max = 133.985/163.262/213.605 ms
        

See enclosed guide for more details. 

PERMISSION  UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP     NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
[unknown]                13121   23700  55.4% -lh5- 98b1 Nov  1 22:00 http_ping/http_ping
[unknown]                  850    1893  44.9% -lh5- e6ae Nov  1 22:00 http_ping/http_ping.guide
[unknown]                  992    1580  62.8% -lh5- 4b08 Nov  1 22:00 http_ping/http_ping.guide.info
[unknown]                  554    1121  49.4% -lh5- 4647 Nov  1 22:00 http_ping/http_ping.readme
[unknown]                15543   15543 100.0% -lh0- 29ec Nov  1 22:00 http_ping/src.lha
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ ----------
 Total         5 files   31060   43837  70.9%            Nov  2 21:18