# httping mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für httping in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:httping
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install httping
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install httping
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: net/httping/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install httping
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: httping from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install httping
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: httping from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#httping
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httping/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S httping
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: httping from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/httping
```

  Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/httping.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:httping
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.4.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Ping-like tool for HTTP requests
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- httping (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 4.4.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

httping is a ping-like utility for HTTP URLs. Instead of measuring ICMP reachability, it times the HTTP path: connect, send a request, and retrieve the reply headers.

### Projektgeschichte

Folkert van Heusden's project page presents httping as `ping` for HTTP requests and carries an older changelog covering early 0.x and 1.x work. That changelog shows the tool growing from basic request timing into SSL support, status-code reporting, Nagios plugin use, transfer-speed display, OpenBSD compilation, authentication, cookies, IPv6, and persistent connections.

The GitHub repository later became the download and source home. Its README documents a CMake build with optional OpenSSL, ncurses TUI, FFTW3 performance graphics, and gettext support, while repository tags show later v2.x through v4.x releases.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

httping has remained a small systems utility, but the batch input records packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Scoop, and Ubuntu. The author page also documents FreeBSD ports usage and 2006 Linux magazine coverage.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The practical use case is checking HTTP latency and behavior from the command line, especially where ICMP ping is blocked or irrelevant. The project page includes a Nagios command example, and the README's optional TLS and TUI features show its fit for monitoring and terminal diagnostics.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

httping is package-nerd bait because it is exactly the kind of tiny Unix tool that fills one missing measurement: not a crawler, not a benchmark suite, just repeated HTTP request timing that packages cleanly on many systems.

### Zeitleiste

- 0.0.9: SSL support was added according to the author changelog.
- 1.0.0: OpenBSD compilation support was added according to the author changelog.
- 1.4.0: IPv6 support was added according to the author changelog.
- 2006: Linux Magazin and Linux Magazine coverage was listed on the author page.
- 2021: The public GitHub repository was created.
- 2022: Git tag v2.9 was created.
- 2025: Git tag v4.4.0 was created.

### Related projects

- Related tools include `ping`, curl timing, Nagios HTTP checks, ApacheBench, and MultiTail, which the author page mentions as a companion for watching output in a separate log view.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing/tags>
- <https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing/master/README.md>
- <https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** blue / mittel
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - httping - 4.4.0-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: httping from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | ping-like program for http-requests | http://www.vanheusden.com/httping
- Nix - httping: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ht/httping/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - httping - 2.5-5.2build2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: httping from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | ping-like program for http-requests | http://www.vanheusden.com/httping
- dnf - httping - 4.4.0-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: httping from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Ping alike tool for http requests | https://github.com/folkertvanheusden/HTTPing/
- pacman - httping - 4.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: httping from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | A ping-like tool for HTTP requests | https://www.vanheusden.com/httping/
- MacPorts - httping: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/httping/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/httping: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/httping.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/httping.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/httping.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph