Testing URLs from a SharePoint Online site?

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Hello,
I have a business case need for a web analytics company. They need to test 100’s of URLs, which is pretty easy I guess, but they need to test them FROM their SharePoint online team site so the testing traffic can be filtered out by the web analytics tool.

I currently cobbled a script together from Googling (i.e. copy and paste from others) which first connects to their SharePoint Online, and then uses Invoke-WebRequest to each URI from a text file.

My question is, how can I be sure that the script is working as intended - that it’s actually doing the WebRequests from the SharePoint site and not from their computer? I know they can check on the website side, but I was wondering if there’s anything I can do in the script to get the origin of the WebRequest…

Below is the script and I left in the persons name up top, as he was the original author. Thank you.

P.S. - there are some lines cut off at the end that finish and export and open and HTML file.

##############################################################################
##
## Website Availability Monitoring
## Created by Sravan Kumar S 
## Date : 19 Apr 2013
## Version : 1.0
## Email: sravankumar.s@outlook.com  
############################################################################ Connect to SharePoint Online
$pass = cat C:\UrlTest\365securestring.txt | convertto-securestring
$mycred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist "admin@lgsmarketingservices.com",$pass 
Import-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -DisableNameChecking
Connect-SPOService –Url https://mySPdomain-admin.sharepoint.com -credential $mycred

## The URI list to test
$URLListFile = "c:\UrlTest\URLList.txt" 
$URLList = Get-Content $URLListFile -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
  $Result = @()
  Foreach($Uri in $URLList) {
  $time = try{
  $request = $null
   ## Request the URI, and measure how long the response took.
  $result1 = Measure-Command { $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri }
  $result1.TotalMilliseconds
  } 
  catch
  {
   $request = $_.Exception.Response
   $time = -1
  }  
  $result += [PSCustomObject] @{
  Time = Get-Date;
  Uri = $uri;
  StatusCode = [int] $request.StatusCode;
  StatusDescription = $request.StatusDescription;
  ResponseLength = $request.RawContentLength;
  TimeTaken =  $time; 
  }
}
    #Prepare email body in HTML format
if($result -ne $null)
{
    $Outputreport = "Website Availability Report Website Availability Report URLStatusCodeStatusDescriptionResponseLengthTimeTaken</TD"
    Foreach($Entry in $Result)
    {
        if($Entry.StatusCode -ne "200")
        {
            $Outputreport += ""
        }
        else
        {
            $Outputreport += ""
        }
        $Outputreport += "$($Entry.uri)$($Entry.StatusCode)$($Entry.StatusDescription)$($Entry.ResponseLength)$($Entry.timetaken)"
    }
    $Outputreport += ""
}
$Outputreport | out-file C:\UrlTest\UrlTest.htm
Invoke-Expression C:\UrlTest\UrlTest.htm
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After the connecting to sharepoint code, can you add something like

if ($? -eq $true){

Test URI

}
else{

write-error “Connection failed”

}