Another free Computer Hope Utility: Is it up?

[Computer Hope Admin]

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.

[evilfantasy]

Worked fine. I think I have found the subject of my next blog post

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)

[Ivy]

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

[homer]

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

[evilfantasy]

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[Computer Hope Admin]

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".

Blogged

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

[homer]

ahh, thanks for the info.