# using curl:
# (make sure it is installed on your system!)
curl --retry 3 https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05

# using wget:
wget https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05 -O /dev/null

# urllib with python 3.x:
import urllib.request
urllib.request.urlopen("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05")

# urllib with python 2.x:
import urllib
urllib.urlopen("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05")

# using requests:
import requests
requests.get("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05")

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'

Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05'))

var https = require('https');
https.get("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05");

package main

import "fmt"
import "net/http"

func main() {
	_, err := http.Head("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Printf("%s", err)
	}
}

file_get_contents('https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05');

using (var client = new System.Net.WebClient())
{
       client.DownloadString("https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05");
}

// the server returns appropriate CORS headers so cross-domain AJAX requests should work:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05', true);
xhr.send(null);

# inside a PowerShell script:
Invoke-RestMethod https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05

# Without an underlying script, passing the command to PowerShell directly:
powershell.exe -command &{Invoke-RestMethod https://healthcheck.ts.vcu.edu/ping/464d7c79-be04-44d0-9fa7-6e7fdba14f05}