Posted by Leif Gregory on 05/10/05 18:00

Hello balwant,

Tuesday, May 10, 2005, 5:59:15 AM, you wrote:
b> is there any method to know whether the other webserver is running
b> or not.

http://us2.php.net/fsockopen

You'll be doing what's termed an HTTP Ping. You make a socket
connection to the other server, perform a GET request on a page
(preferably small), examine the returned headers for a Status 200
(which means OK).

If you get that, the webserver responded and served up the page.

You might just be able to do a HEAD request, but I haven't tried it.


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Leif (TB lists moderator and fellow end user).

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