nethelp

Nethelp will assist with finding out what is blocking outbound connections from the machine by sending HTTP and TCP connections to servies used by Sauce Labs.

Usage

Usage:
  nethelp [flags]

Flags:
      --api            run API tests.  Requires that you have $SAUCE_USERNAME and $SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY environment variables.
  -h, --help           help for nethelp
      --http           run HTTP tests. Default is to run all tests.
      --log            enables logging to the file specified by the --out flag.
  -l, --lucky          disable the proxy check at startup and instead test the proxy during execution.
  -p, --proxy string   upstream proxy for nethelp to use. Enter like -p protocol://username:password@host:port
      --tcp            run TCP tests. Default is to only run HTTP tests.
  -v, --verbose        print all logging levels

Output

./nethelp-mac
[✓] https://status.saucelabs.com is reachable 200 OK
[✓] https://www.duckduckgo.com is reachable 200 OK
[✓] https://ondemand.saucelabs.com:443 is reachable 200 OK
[✓] http://ondemand.saucelabs.com:80 is reachable 200 OK
[✓] https://us1.appium.testobject.com/wd/hub/session is reachable but returned 401 Unauthorized
[✓] https://eu1.appium.testobject.com/wd/hub/session is reachable but returned 401 Unauthorized
[✓] https://saucelabs.com/rest/v1/max.dobeck/tunnels is reachable 200 OK

Downloading

Download the binary for your operating system at https://github.com/mdsauce/nethelp/releases. On Mac and Linux make this file executable by running $ chmod 755. For example:

$ chmod 755 nethelp-linux

You may get a permission denied type error if you try and run without this step.

Build

Built using Cobra and go1.11. Cobra is basically a templating tool for CLI and generator for the file structure. Cobra is built on top of pflag which expands on the std library flag package in Go.

Clone the repo.

$ git clone git@github.com:mdsauce/nethelp.git

Go the nethelp dir. Use go build to build a local version in the current dir or go install to install one in the go/bin folder and add the binary to your path.

If you're new to Go consider taking the tour https://tour.golang.org/list.

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