Ways to test web access automagically

[bob at rsi.com (Bob Gorman)]

At 10:48 AM 1/10/2005, David Hummel wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:13:38AM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
>> 
>> Unless Comcast has started to choke port 80 requests,
>
>That is exactly what is happening.

I've heard others complain about this, but my port 80 is not blocked by comcast.

I personally keep port 80 closed and use https/443 instead.  Seems the simple script attacks that plagued my port 80 don't go there.