Ping

From The Socknet

The ping function requests that the system being pinged call the pinger's pong function. This is a maintenance feature to ensure that all is running correctly.

ping and pong are both POSTing functions.

POST ping
{ from: ... pinger's user data ...
}

POST pong
{ from: ... pingee's user data ...
}

There are no responses. However, HTTP statuses may indicate important information, such as timeouts.

The pong should be sent before the ping's HTTP connection is closed.

This function may be called on/by a service that supports the API.

Considerations

This represents a security weakness if the requester is not verified. It could be used to mount a DDoS attack.