Thanks for everyone's replies, very helpful. Richard
On 30 October 2014 14:42, silvioprog <silviop...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM, waldo kitty <wkitt...@windstream.net> > wrote: > >> On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace <richard.m...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is >>>> responding? >>>> >>> > >> > maybe ping? >> >> ping might tell you if the IP address is active but that's all... it >> won't tell you if the server is running or servicing requests... you have >> to request something from the server to see if it is servicing requests... >> the easiest and smallest would be to request the headers (only) from the >> root... > > > +1 > > Like this: > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2014-October/089112.html > > -- > Silvio Clécio > My public projects - github.com/silvioprog > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > >
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