Changes to Pingdom Tools API

[xurizaemon]

Pingdom have modified this (undocumented) API, and it now requires a slightly different interface.

• If certain criteria are not met, the API response is empty.
• If other criteria are not met, the API responds with "internal server error"
• The API endpoint location has changed slightly.
• The API response format has changed.

Criteria

Based on testing (as of today), the API now requires that:

• A user-agent header be supplied.
• A referer header be supplied (and set to https://tools.pingdom.com/?).
• A callback parameter be passed, see Response below.

Response

The response will now be wrapped in some code for eval():

pingdom_tools && pingdom_tools({"test_id":"abc123","poll_state_url":"https://fpt-api.pingdom.com/api/0.1/test/abc123"});

I'd rather strip or regex that out than pass it to eval(), since otherwise we risk the potential for malicious responses.