Test connection with WebClient

[EwS]

The code below is what I use for posting an xml file to the remote server. It works fine. However, there are times when I just want to test if the server is down without actually sending any file. How can I do that?

public void PostResponse(String fileName, String uploadUrl)
{
   ASCIIEncoding oEncoder = new ASCIIEncoding();
   byte[] bytArray = oEncoder.GetBytes(fileName);
   try
   {
      WebClient myWebClient = new WebClient();
      Byte[] responseArray = myWebClient.UploadData   (uploadUrl, "POST", bytArray);
   }
   catch (Exception ex)
   {
      throw ex;
   }
   return;        
}

 

[JurkMonkey]

Why not just ping the server?

http://www.ubuntu.com/