Sometimes, you just want to know if you can reach your thing (service really)
from Cloud Foundry. Is there a proxy in the way, is there an app security
group, the dreaded firewall of doom or is it your code? Will It Connect
takes a url or hostname and a port or an ip and a port and tries to make a
connection from inside Cloud Foundry. If your destination allows us to open
a socket or responds to a GET request on the URL, we report success, if not,
we fail. Deploy it to the same space you intend to run your app and you can
test the exact environment! The original usecase was designed with non http
connections in mind, so we don't make any assumptions about protocol unless
you provide a url (i.e. something that starts with http:// or https://.
We simply open a socket connection to the host and port. If you provide a
URL we make a GET request, including SSL handshake if required.
#For Example:
V2 API
➜ ~ curl -i http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/v2/willitconnect/ -d '{"target":"http://aslkasolasfow.com"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Application-Context: application
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:18:15 GMT
{"lastChecked":0,"entry":"http://aslkasolasfow.com","canConnect":false,"httpStatus":0,"validUrl":true,"validHostname":false}
➜ ~ curl -i http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/v2/willitconnect/ -d '{"target":"amazon.com:80"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Application-Context: application
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:28:58 GMT
{"lastChecked":1459474138239,"entry":"amazon.com:80","canConnect":true,"httpStatus":0,"validUrl":false,"validHostname":true}
➜ ~ curl -i http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/v2/willitconnect/ -d '{"target":"amazon.com:8120"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-Application-Context: application
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 01:29:13 GMT
{"lastChecked":1459474153523,"entry":"amazon.com:8120","canConnect":false,"httpStatus":0,"validUrl":false,"validHostname":true}
V1 API
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=amazon.com -d port=80
I can connect to amazon.com on 80
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=twitter.com -d port=8080
I cannot connect to twitter.com on 8080
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=twitter.com -d port=443
I can connect to twitter.com on 443
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=google.com -d port=443
I can connect to google.com on 443
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=pivotal.io -d port=443
I can connect to pivotal.io on 443
➜ curl "http://willitconnect.cfapps.io/willitconnect" -d host=nowaynohow.io -d port=443
I cannot connect to nowaynohow.io on 443
If you bind a service to willitconnect we'll do our best to connect to them. We
look for fields with the substring host and port to try to make reasonable guesses
about what your service needs. We also connect to keys named 'URI' and anything
that looks like a URL. See the accept method in EntryConsumer.java
for the algorithm used. You can see the results of this scan by calling the
/serviceresults endpoint.
NOTE This feature does not support HTTP(S) connections yet!!
#Get Some 3 steps get you up and running! ##From the latest release Download the jar file from the latest release and push it
➜ cf push -p willitconnect-0.0.1.jar #Use the right version # from the release
##From source
➜ git clone https://github.com/krujos/willitconnect
➜ npm install
➜ ./gradlew assemble
➜ cf push
#Development The project uses the standard spring boot directory structure, with web content located in src/main/resources/static.
You can run it locally by using
➜ ./gradlew bootRun
#TODO
- improve test coverage for UI