Checking Connectivity on Your Blue Coat ProxySG

24 February, 2008 by Greg Ferro Print Posting

A very simple tool in your Proxy SG to check that you can access resources. It only works for HTTP but it provides a good check. I use this a lot in networks where ICMP has been disabled for security.

Connect to your ProxySG using SSH (or possibly telnet) and enter the following at the command line. This sample shows a successful connection.


lab1#test http get http://www.google.com
Type escape sequence to abort.

Executing HTTP get test
* HTTP request header sent:

GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.0

Host: www.google.com

User-Agent: HTTP_TEST_CLIENT
* HTTP response header recv'd:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Location: http://www.google.co.uk/

Cache-Control: private

Content-Type: text/html

Server: gws

Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:39:37 GMT

Content-length: 221

Connection: close

Set-Cookie: PREF=ID=60aa3ddba94a8684:TM=1197229177:LM=1197229177:S=G7DwXPw8kdv99f-D; expires=Tue, 08-Dec-2009 19:39:37 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com