Forecast

Forecast is small and simple cross-platform utility for testing HTTP and WebSocket server connectivity. With this tool you can do the following.

• Test if a host is able to receive connections
• Check for and validate certificates remotely
• Test both IPv4 and IPv6
• Validate the existence of A and AAAA records
• Human readable outputs

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Usage

 -h, --host         Required. The host you wish to verify.

 -p, --port         Required. The port the host is listening on.

 -f, --family       Required. The address family you wish to verify.

 -b, --beautiful    (Default: true) Indicates if the output should be pretty printed.

 --help             Display this help screen.

 --version          Display version information.
 

Examples

Check a host over IPv6

./Forecast -h rainway.io -p 443 -f ipv6

{
  "Cert": {
    "CertValid": true,
    "Subject": {
      "CN": "ssl392138.cloudflaressl.com",
      "OU": "Domain Control Validated"
    },
    "Issuer": {
      "CN": "COMODO ECC Domain Validation Secure Server CA 2",
      "O": "COMODO CA Limited",
      "L": "Salford",
      "S": "Greater Manchester",
      "C": "GB"
    }
  },
  "CouldPing": true,
  "HasTargetAddressFamily": true,
  "HostName": "rainway.io",
  "IpAddress": "2400:cb00:2048:1::6818:74c",
  "Port": 443,
  "AddressFamily": "InterNetworkV6"
}

Check a host over IPv4

./Forecast -h google.com -p 80 -f ipv4

{
  "Cert": null,
  "CouldPing": true,
  "HasTargetAddressFamily": true,
  "HostName": "google.com",
  "IpAddress": "172.217.3.206",
  "Port": 80,
  "AddressFamily": "InterNetwork"
}