[Lazarus] Detecting if a remote web server is running

[Richard Mace]

Thanks for everyone's replies, very helpful.

Richard

On 30 October 2014 14:42, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:39 AM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10/30/2014 7:29 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Richard Mace <richard.mace at gmail.com>
>>> 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
>
> Like this:
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2014-October/089112.html
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