Re (boo): Internet Connection Uptime Logger

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I'm curious as to why the criteria is a webpage's headers, rather than ability to ping out. What drove that decision?

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Re: Re (boo): Internet Connection Uptime Logger by zeno (Friar) on Feb 12, 2001 at 21:14 UTC
Hi boo_radley That's an excellent question. I thought getting the header would simulate the action we want our users to be able to do: accessing the internet using a browser. However, now that you mention it, maybe just being able to ping a site would be okay, as long as we were pinging a URL and not an IP address. Why? Because our service provider often has problems with their DNS servers, too. Thanks for the input. -zeno	[reply]

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Re: Re (boo): Internet Connection Uptime Logger
by zeno (Friar) on Feb 12, 2001 at 21:14 UTC

Hi boo_radley
That's an excellent question. I thought getting the header would simulate the action we want our users to be able to do: accessing the internet using a browser.

However, now that you mention it, maybe just being able to ping a site would be okay, as long as we were pinging a URL and not an IP address. Why? Because our service provider often has problems with their DNS servers, too. Thanks for the input.
-zeno

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