Simple connection test

An extremely simple connection tester app. I created this for use in a public cloud to test networking over various protocols. You send a POST request to this app with the connection details, and the app will proxy your request through itself and return the results back to you.

Config

The following environment variables are required:

• PORT: the port the app's web server will listen
• SECRET: The pre-shared key required to authenticate to the app

Authentication

To authenticate, set the X-SECRET-KEY header to the pre-shared key passed in as an environment variable

HTTP

To make an HTTP request, send a POST request to /http with an Axios config object in JSON

LISTENING_ADDR='http://localhost:3000'

curl -w "\n" -H "X-SECRET-KEY: testing" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"method": "get", "timeout": 1000, "url": "https://ifconfig.co"}' ${LISTENING_ADDR}/http

ICMP

To make an ICMP ping request, send a POST request to /ping with a JSON object in this format: {"host": "1.2.3.4"}

LISTENING_ADDR='http://localhost:3000'

curl -w "\n" -H "X-SECRET-KEY: testing" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST --data '{"host": "8.8.8.8"}' ${LISTENING_ADDR}/ping

Test locally

npm install
npm test

The required config variables will automatically be set to:

• PORT: 3000
• SECRET: testing