WEB-Monitor

[Haug]

I'm trying to build a web-monitor which checks for any kind of response from a "openurl" (Inet-object).
This is working fine - however I would like to get a responsecode (200, 404, 500 and son on) instead of just checking if it responds or not.

Anyone got some ideas on that ?

Any help appreciated

 

[SemperFiDownUnda]

404 error is actual a responce from the server. If you get a 404 error then the server DID respond.

http://www.tek-tips.com/testme.html

is a responce from

http://www.tek-tips.com.

The page doesn't exist so it send you a 404 page. You could check the page for the string "404" but that isn't reliable because it might be valid as in "Goto room 404 for History 101". The format of the 404 page is up to the administrator of the server. They don't even have to show you a error number.

Chech out microsofts 404

http://www.microsoft.com/testme.html

or my ISP

http://www.telstra.com.au/testme.html

or

http://www.cnn.com/testme.html

as you can see each is different and don't have to include 404 anywhere in there.
as this link shows

http://news.bbc.co.uk/testme.html