Hi
Sorry I goofed up. Actually I mistook it for TCP ping that nmap provides. That's my
(sort of) playground...
:-))
Looking at network other way round is good ..:-))
Bye
Shridhar
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar spewed into the ether:
> >Ping uses ICMP protocol. If you want http ping etc, better use port
> >scanner like nmap.... But on your own server...... :-))
> A http ping???????
> http works over TCP, which is at a comparable level to ICMP.
> You can use a TCP connect, or an ICMP request, or a UDP connect.
> The first and last are done by your browser (or any application which does
>FTP/HTTP/Port-Scanning/.....)
> ping uses the ICMP protocol.
> So you cannot have a http ping, but you can have a TCP connect (or if you want to
>call it that, ping).
>
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