Just F-Ing Ping
Dev tools
network debugging utility
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Just F-Ing Ping
System16 is correct; you can select a part of the domain, and Safari will not alter it when you copy the…
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2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Useful idea that makes life easier for people who want to ping URLs.
From 2 comments
Awesome I always wanted something like this and didn't make the connection it would be that obvious to do. Thanks! You are going to make my life nicer
staz on HNNice work. Drives me nuts that you have to strip off the protocol. I get the logic but UX is better if you allow it. We are in a REST all the things universe now.
quickthrower2 on HN
Objections
Workaround for browser clipboard behaviour rather than fixing the browser UI.
From 2 comments
No. No, no, no, a thousand times no. We shouldn't come up with workarounds for Google's shitty software. It enables them in furtherance of their goal of wrecking the Internet…
wannacboatmovie on HNMake more noise about bad UI design. As far as I'm concerned, this particular behaviour is a product of an incorrectly designed user interface. Within the Windows-style clipboard…
qwery on HN
Stripping userinfo from URLs is done incorrectly.
From 1 comment
I don't think you're stripping the userinfo quite right. You're stripping everything after the at-sign, when you want to strip what's before: ```…
n0ot on HN
Requests
Browsers should show network diagnostics on error pages.
From 1 comment
I kinda wish the browsers error page would do this. I want it to give a brief summary of: * Was the TCP connection established. * Was an ICMP error sent back (ie. Connection…
londons_explore on HN
Questions
Why ping from the browser tab rather than a terminal?
From 1 comment
stupid question: why do you want to find the ping from the browser tab?
vivzkestrel on HN
Alternatives named
trurl for parsing URLs.
From 1 comment
Seems like an excellent use case for trurl [1], a tool built on curls url parsing functions (which can presumably handle any weird url format you throw at it), though I'm not…
OskarS on HN