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Firefox 2.x, 3.x
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Testing a server’s accessibility directly from the browser
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The ‘ping’ command can help test the
accessibility of servers and diagnose
packet loss if any. Unfortunately you
need to open a Command Prompt to
run the command.
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You can even run a ping test
directly from a website—this saves the
efort of going through the Command
Prompt. What’s more, you can copy the
desired command to start it directly. Go
to the website ‘
http://network-tools.
com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=%s
’.
Enter the URL into the dialog field in
the middle, for example ‘www.google.
co.in’, and click on ‘Submit’. Now save
a new bookmark with the command
‘Bookmarks | Add Bookmarks’ or using
the keyboard shortcut ‘[Ctrl]+[D]’. Then
right-click on the new bookmark, for
instance, and select the ‘Properties’
context command. Type the term ‘
ping
’ in the ‘Keyword’ field. Now
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switch to the ‘Location’ field and get
the cursor to the end of the line using
the [End] key. Change the sample URL
entered there behind the name ‘
host=%s’
to ‘host=%www.google.co.in’. Confirm
the setting with ‘OK’. Now when you type
‘
ping google’ directly in the address
bar, the Network Tools website will ping
‘www.google.co.in’ for you. Similarly, you
can replace ‘google’ with the name of
any of the websites or servers you need
to ping and save them as bookmarks.
Note: Some accessible web servers
deliver a timeout though, because a
firewall or the server itself blocks the
ICMP package of the ping request.
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