Return page availability

[CLuksha]

I am looking to create a scheduled task that pings 5 pages on the web site
and then sends an email to the admin that the pages were in fact up and
running. I am not sure of the best way to do this?

I think that was simple enough to get the idea across. I don't need to show
page load time - although it would be nice. What I need to do is simply
ping the page and either have the response put into the email or have the
email say the page was available or not.

Any ideas? Solutions?

Thanks!
Chris

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Chris Luksha
Echo Web Services
Making Your Website Resound
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[Eddie]

Your solution is to use cfhttp with method = "head". Check the
documentation on cfhttp.
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Eddie
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[dempster]

You can use CFHTTP with try/catch error handling. If the page does not open,
you will get an error message. You can compile these and place in your email.
In CFHTTP, you can set a timeout value in seconds that tells you how long to
wait before considering the request a failure.

See example code.

-Paul



<CFTRY>
<CFHTTP URL="http://www.mysite.com/anypage.html" METHOD="GET"
RESOLVEURL="false" TIMEOUT="10" THROWONERROR="yes">
</CFHTTP>
<CFCATCH TYPE="Any">
<CFSET pageError = CFCATCH.Message>
</CFCATCH>
</CFTRY>
<CFIF IsDefined("pageError")>
...show error message or add to email
</CFIF>

[CLuksha]

Thanks for the code. I will give it a try this week.

Chris

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Chris Luksha
Echo Web Services
Making Your Website Resound
[url]www.echowebservices.com[/url]
"dempster" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> You can use CFHTTP with try/catch error handling. If the page does not
> open,
> you will get an error message. You can compile these and place in your
> email.
> In CFHTTP, you can set a timeout value in seconds that tells you how long
> to
> wait before considering the request a failure.
>
> See example code.
>
> -Paul
>
>
>
> <CFTRY>
> <CFHTTP URL="http://www.mysite.com/anypage.html" METHOD="GET"
> RESOLVEURL="false" TIMEOUT="10" THROWONERROR="yes">
> </CFHTTP>
> <CFCATCH TYPE="Any">
> <CFSET pageError = CFCATCH.Message>
> </CFCATCH>
> </CFTRY>
> <CFIF IsDefined("pageError")>
> ...show error message or add to email
> </CFIF>
>