I disagree. In his post he is trying to find problem determination by trying to retrieve a website. If by chance the http request is timing out (DOS, high traffic, etc) he will not receive an http error message besides "timed out". This just says that there was no reply to the request sent. If you read the original post I believe he is trying to get beyond the fact that the server is timing out.

Continue to use LWP::UserAgent, but dig deeper to see what the problem is. Is the server up? (ICMP call) Is the port listening? (TCP call) Has ICMP been shut down? (Another TCP Call) All which can be accomplished through NET::Ping.

The fact that an HTTP request times out does not mean that it is an HTTP problem.

Understand that the word "Ping" as the original author used does not only apply to ICMP packets.

The problem resolution is definately related.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: website availability ping by diakonos
in thread website availability ping by Lhamo Latso

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