bzr PING or similar needed to validate http configuration

[Robert Collins]

It would be good to be able to get bzr to send a emptyish request to
check that a given server can be reached -

e.g.

$ bzr ping http://foo/bar
Trying http://foo/bar : success(apache 2.1.2)
Trying bzr+http://foo/bar : success(version 0.18)

 affects /products/bzr
 status triaged
 importance medium
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[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

Perhaps this could be added to "bzr info"?

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

I agree info would be a good place for it.

[John A Meinel (jameinel)]

At the moment, I have:
https://launchpad.net/bzr-hello

Which allows you to run "bzr hello SERVER". It then does some simple round-trip timing, etc. But it expects to connect to a smart server.