This little program performs an HTTP GET on a service on a specific host and returns the HTTP status code together with the body text returned by the service. Optionally it can tunnel through a load balancer to a particular underlying host.
1.1.0 Open-source and upload to Github
1.0.2 Support sites with duff SSL certificates (and moan about them, too)
1.0.1 Allow specification of alternate ports, e.g. http://foo.bah:8080/
1.0.0 Initial version
Enjoy,
Jeremy McGee