What's a good tool for checking from my own machine that my server is up?
- by chico
I'm looking for a good tool (web site or not) that I can use to do a simple check whether my web server is accessible from outside LAN (it's serving in a non-standard port).
To give some context, I've gone through this problem: can't access my ip from outside. Even the tools I've found are not really working.
Currently to fetch the html I serve with the online bash tool I do:
curl <my ip>:<my port> \
| sed 's/&/\&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g; s/"/\"/g; s/'"'"'/\'/g'
I'm looking for a simple tool that can display the html properly, or just show raw text without resorting to sed html escaping and curl.
