Re: Cheap Ping

At 12:37 PM -0700 4/13/07, Paul Novitski wrote:

At 11:16 PM -0600 4/12/07, ccspencer@softhome.net wrote:

I am trying to find a simple way to test to see if a web site is up or not.

At 4/13/2007 08:56 AM, tedd wrote:

Try: if ($unix) { system ("ping -c$count -w$count $host"); system("killall ping"); } else { system("ping -n $count $host"); }

What's a circumstance in which one would want to ping without getting a return value? Short of attempting a denial of service barrage? Really, I'm not being snide, just curious.

It's a bit of code taken from: http://www.theworldsend.net/ <- the first example. While I haven't used it, it seemed to be related to the OP subject, no?. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com