Its a kludge, and only good for developement, not production, but I use the
INetLOW program to grab the full headers for me if I suspect a server
problem. As I said, OK for debugging, but no good for production.
CSE
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben
> Combee
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 November 2000 2:55 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Way to get INetLib status without fetching headers?
>
>
> We're seeing a situation where our server that is processing
> requests may be
> down, but we're not able to detect that in our INetLib-based Palm VIIx
> client application.
>
> In our application, we prefer not to fetch HTTP headers because of the
> extra bandwidth usage. However, I don't see any way to find out
> the status
> of the remote server other than by parsing these headers -- I
> can't find out
> if the proxy failed with a 500, or the server just isn't there with a 404,
> as far as I can tell.
>
> Is there anyway to get that status info (just the HTTP error
> number would be
> fine) without grabbing full HTTP headers? Nothing seems obvious, but I
> wanted to pose the question here in case someone else had found a good way
> to deal with this.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Ben Combee
> Veriprise Wireless <http://www.veriprise.com>
>
>
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