At 12:37 PM -0700 4/13/07, Paul Novitski wrote:
At 11:16 PM -0600 4/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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