On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM, waldo kitty <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace <[email protected]> >> 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
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