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

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