HTTP(s) checks with httpstat.us & curl

Useful site for HTTP(S) testing: https://httpstat.us/

Example 1:

curl --connect-timeout 5 -m 10 https://httpstat.us/200?sleep=7000 > test.curl

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100     6    0     6    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:07 --:--:--     1

echo $?

0

Example 2:

curl --connect-timeout 5 -m 10 https://httpstat.us/200?sleep=10000 > test.curl

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:10 --:--:--     0

curl: (28) Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 out of -1 bytes received

echo $?

28

Notes about timeouts in curl:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/94604/does-curl-have-a-timeout/94612