diff --git a/api/v1/streaming/health/errors.go b/api/v1/streaming/health/errors.go
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+++ b/api/v1/streaming/health/errors.go
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+package health
+
+import (
+	"github.com/reiver/go-erorr"
+)
+
+const (
+	errNilHTTPResponse = erorr.Error("mstdn: nil http-response")
+)
diff --git a/api/v1/streaming/health/isok.go b/api/v1/streaming/health/isok.go
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+++ b/api/v1/streaming/health/isok.go
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+package health
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+)
+
+// IsOK return true if the host is "alive".
+//
+// The way to checks if the host is "alive" is by making
+// an HTTP request to "/api/v1/streaming/health".
+// If the HTTP-status-code of the HTTP-response is "200",
+// it returns true.
+//
+// This is part of the Mastodon client-server API.
+//
+// See:
+// https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/streaming/#health
+func IsOK(host string) (bool, error) {
+	var urloc = url.URL{
+		Scheme:"https",
+		Host:host,
+		Path:Path,
+	}
+
+	resp, err := http.Get(urloc.String())
+	if nil != err {
+		return false, err
+	}
+
+	if nil == resp {
+		return false, errNilHTTPResponse
+	}
+
+	return http.StatusOK == resp.StatusCode, nil
+}
diff --git a/api/v1/streaming/health/path.go b/api/v1/streaming/health/path.go
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+package health
+
+const Path string = "/api/v1/streaming/health"
+
+