site availability checker?

[nell1]

I want to create an asp application that checks our site for availiability on certain time intervals.

I'm thinking that the best way would be to request a page from the site to check if its available. Is it possible to request a page from asp and decipher the headers that come back for any error codes and then carry out any further actions like emailing.

Cheers!

Neil

 

[shaddow]

You can use XMLHTTP object to navigate to a page and then check the response.
Not shure if the naming of object is right, i have windows 2003 and it's diferent from Windows 2000.
It's not hard to search here for the right object name

set xml= Server.CreateObject("XMLHTTP&quot
xml.Open "GET", "

http://www.mysite.com/test.asp",

False
xml.send
response_text = xml.responseText


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George, M

 

[nell1]

Thanks for the reply shaddow,

hadn't though about the xmlhttp object..perfect!

Thanks alot for your help!


Nell1

 

[Tarwn]

An easier way then checking the response text would be to check the status property. Basically as long as you get a status of 200 then your good to go, the rest (404, etc) would obviously be bad states.

-Tarwn

[sub]01000111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01000011 01101111 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100101 00111111[/sub]
The never-completed website:

http://www.tiernok.com/

 

[nell1]

works a treat Tarwn...

Many thanks for your input!

Nell1