This is indeed a cool hack. I was astonished for a moment, because it was a bedrock belief that you can't send pings from Javascript. And in fact, that is still true.
Apenwarr's code sends short HTTP queries of the format shown below to each of two hosts: http://gstatic.com/generate_204 http://apenwarr.ca/blip/ The Blip tool shows ~60-70ms for the gstatic host, and ~130 msec for the latter. Ping times are ~52 msec and 125msec, respectively. These times seem to track response times by my eye (no serious analysis) to load both on my primary (bloated) router and CeroWrt. Still a cool hack. Rich ------------------------- HTTP Request & Response for typical blip "ping" OPTIONS /generate_204 HTTP/1.1 Host: gstatic.com Connection: keep-alive Access-Control-Request-Method: GET Origin: http://gfblip.appspot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.65 Safari/537.31 Access-Control-Request-Headers: accept, origin, x-requested-with Accept: */* Referer: http://gfblip.appspot.com/ Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3 HTTP/1.1 204 No Content Content-Length: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:37:17 GMT Server: GFE/2.0 On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:04 PM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > Apenwarr has developed a really unique tool for seeing latency and > packet loss via javascript. I had no idea this was possible: > > http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201304#26 > > > > -- > Dave Täht > > Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: > http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
