We have deployed few new improvements to the API.
Support for new parameters
PING Test methods
ttl – Max allowed hops for packet (default=128, max=255)
bufferSize – Size of the Packet data (default=32, max=65500)
fragment – Fragmentation of sending packets. (default=1)
resolve – IP addresses will be resolved to domain names for each hop (default=0)
ipv4only – Force using IPv4. If no IPv4 IP address is returned will return error (default=0)
ipv6only – Force using IPv6. If no IPv6 IP address is returned will return error (default=0)
DIGDNS Test methods
commandTimeout – DNS query timeout in milliseconds (default=1000ms)
retries – Total number of retries (default=0)
TRACEROUTE Test methods
maxFailedHops – Stop the command execution after maximum errors in a row (e.g. stop after 5 ping timeouts, default=0)
ttlStart – First Hop from which the trace route should start (default=1) bufferSize – Size of the Packet data (default=32, max=65500)
fragment – Fragmentation of sending packets (default=1)
resolve – IP addresses will be resolved to domain names for each hop (default=0)
ipv4only – Force using IPv4. If no IPv4 IP address is returned will return error (default=0)
ipv6only – Force using IPv6. If no IPv6 IP address is returned will return error (default=0)
PAGELOAD Test methods
commandTimeout – Maximum allowed time for pageload in milliseconds
HTTPGET Test methods
commandTimeout – Maximum allowed time to send HTTP GET request and receive the response in milliseconds
maxBytes – Max bytes to download from response stream
2. Changes in how timeouts are handled by the API
Each method has 2 main time out parameters:
timeout – Amount of time in milliseconds in which API responds with result
commandTimeout – timeout for the actual test command. For most of the tests its obvious that commandTimeout correlates with total timeout of the API method. However, in case of Ping and Traceroute its not the case. Ping methods by default execute 3 ping commands. Traceroute executes even more and it depends on many parameters such as TTL, count etc.