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[lintow]

I have a link that links to another web server page. If the web server that I'm trying to link to is down

then I would like to show a page that tells the client the server is down for maintenence.

Can this be down

 

[BabyJeffy]

It can be done... load the link into an iframe... and set the onload event for the iframe to set the status of the link to "working" (once triggered). This has a nasty side effect of visiting the link in question (and all the traffic and stuff that comes with it). The positive spin is that the page will be pre-cached

Cheers,
Jeff

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[lintow]

I do not want to use any frames. Is there another way to do this?
I think you could test if there is a connection to the URL or the sever? If there is no connection then redirect to another page?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated

 

[BabyJeffy]

You would be much better off doing this test server-side and then outputting the results to the page depending on the outcome of the test.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[lintow]

Do you have any sample script of this method?

 

[BabyJeffy]

Do you have a server-side environment at your disposal?

 

[lintow]

yes

 

[BabyJeffy]

Excellent