Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Mace
Thanks for everyone's replies, very helpful. Richard On 30 October 2014 14:42, silvioprog wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM, waldo kitty > wrote: > >> On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace >>> wrote: >>> Hi

Re: [Lazarus] TFMTBCDField problem

2014-10-30 Thread Joost van der Sluis
On 10/30/2014 04:45 PM, Chris Rempas wrote: ...as a last resort, i formatted an old disk, installed windows 8.1, installed lazarus, downloaded a new snapshot from freepascal site, extracted and followed instructions. I get an error (i think in fpmkunit.pp) when i execute "make clean all". i trie

Re: [Lazarus] TFMTBCDField problem

2014-10-30 Thread Chris Rempas
...as a last resort, i formatted an old disk, installed windows 8.1, installed lazarus, downloaded a new snapshot from freepascal site, extracted and followed instructions. I get an error (i think in fpmkunit.pp) when i execute "make clean all".i tried to execute "make install" but i get the sam

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread silvioprog
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM, waldo kitty wrote: > On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace >> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is >>> responding? >>> >> > > > may

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread waldo kitty
On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace 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

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:29:00 +0100 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > maybe ping? Many servers do not respond to ping. So not reliable. Mattias -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mai

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread Tony Whyman
Richard, There is no substitute for "suck it and see". I have a web server that I need to ensure keeps running. I monitor it from another system that runs a CRON job every five minutes that uses "wget" to download the home page. If this fails it EMails me. As you are putting this on the lazarus l

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread silvioprog
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Richard Mace wrote: > Hi All, > What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is > responding? > Get the HTTP headers: uses fphttpclient; procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var VHttp: TFPHTTPClient; VHeaders: TStrings; be

Re: [Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
maybe ping? On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace wrote: > Hi All, > What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is > responding? > > Thanks > > Richard > > -- > ___ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepasc

Re: [Lazarus] LazReport - "The paper ... has no defined rectangle!"

2014-10-30 Thread Gabor Boros
2014.10.30. 8:01 keltezéssel, zeljko írta: I'm using Qt for production (commercial apps) on linux,win32 and mac and I don't have such problems. Please open separate issues about your problems and attach project examples, so I'll fix it. http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26971 http://bugs.

[Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Mace
Hi All, What's the most reliable way of detecting whether a remote website is responding? Thanks Richard -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] LazReport - "The paper ... has no defined rectangle!"

2014-10-30 Thread zeljko
On 10/29/2014 09:11 PM, Gabor Boros wrote: 2014.10.29. 20:19 keltezéssel, zeljko írta: Yes. CUPS-PDF. I can print from the report designer and IDE too. Cross compiled i386-win32 application working also without explicitly added printers4lazarus. Don't know how it can work. Printer object comes