RE: Test on the web site

Short answer, yes.

Couple different ways to do it, depending on why it is becoming unavailable.

If it's becoming unavailable because your machine can't reach the internet
anymore, then you would want some job running on your web server pinging
some known internet address periodically.  If the ping starts timing out
then have the program send a message.  Of course, if your machine can't
reach the internet, it's going to be fairly hard to get an e-mail out <g>

If it's becoming unavailable because the web server needs restarting for
some reason, then I would write a program in your language of choice (RPG
comes to mind) that simply attempts to open a connection on the web server
on port 80.  Port 80 being the HTTP port, of course.  If your program can't
connect to port 80, then send the message, should be easier to send an
e-mail message this way, of course.

If it's becoming unavailable because of a 404 error or something, do the
same as above, connect to port 80, then send a GET request.  I don't
remember the exact syntax off the top of my head, but I had cheated to get
the syntax in the first place by writing a http proxy on my PC.  You could
find the RFC for it, or maybe someone on this list knows.  Then you can see
if you get a 404.

HTH

Regards,

Jim Langston
Programmer/Analyst
Cels Enterprises, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:web400-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Dave Willenborg
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:53 PM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] Test on the web site


Lately we have been having problems with our web site not being available
to our users.

Is the a way that I can test the web site to see if it is available on the
net other than doing it manually.

What I would like to do is have a program run to make sure the web site is
functional. If it is not, send an e-mail or a page to a cell phone so that
the person on call can fix the problem.

TIA
Dave Willenborg
MIS Manager
J C Robinson Seed Co.
dwillenborg@jcrob.com

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