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Title: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on April 27, 2008, 11:47:03 PM

I've got another free Computer Hope utility up and to a point of stability that I'm comfortable with, feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Called "Is it up?" the script checks if a website is up or down, pings the IP associated with the server, and finally give a response time.

Found at:

http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/isitup.cgi

I highly recommend those of you running Firefox follow the steps on the Firefox tip shown on the page. It's been SOOO nice while testing this script to have the ability to type: "ping <whatever>" or simply adding "ping " to the beginning of a URL to see if it's you or the site that's not responding.

Let me know what you think and if you have any other ideas or suggestions on this script or other utilities you'd like to see.

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: evilfantasy on April 28, 2008, 01:04:12 PM

Worked fine. I think I have found the subject of my next blog post (http://bestsmileys.com/happy/7.gif)

Status: 200 - OK
Page: http://evilspages.blogspot.com/
Page title: Bare Witness
Domain: evilspages.blogspot.com

Ping results...
IP address: 72.14.207.191
Response time: 77.0 ms (Fast)

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: Ivy on April 28, 2008, 07:44:48 PM

Hey!!!!!! I didn't observe this before, This is really good!!

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: homer on April 28, 2008, 11:53:23 PM

pretty cool. one question though, what is with the status number? does it go up or down depending on the response time?

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: evilfantasy on May 01, 2008, 03:24:39 PM

 Blogged (http://evilspages.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-it-up-website-checker.html)

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: Computer Hope Admin on May 05, 2008, 02:02:56 AM

Quote from: homer on April 28, 2008, 11:53:23 PM

pretty cool. one question though, what is with the status number? does it go up or down depending on the response time?

That's the HTTP status code, e.g. 200 is the HTTP response received by a browser or any other software program querying a web page. You're almost definately familiar with the 404 status code, same type of thing, except something you're more familiar with because you see it often. Clicking on the status code will open a dictionary definition page, which gives additional details. I'll update the script so it says "HTTP status" instead of just "Status".

Quote from: evilfantasy on May 01, 2008, 03:24:39 PM

Blogged (http://evilspages.blogspot.com/2008/05/is-it-up-website-checker.html)

Thanks for blogging it and digging it. :) I'm sure it will help let others know about it.

Title: Re: Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?
Post by: homer on May 05, 2008, 04:26:15 PM

ahh, thanks for the info.