Hi,

My first posting here - I have been trying to script something robust which could monitor websites. I've mostly used perls for pattern matching in logfiles, and for reporting purposes.

I was suggested to use LWP, and I'm still learning the ropes in this function, but I've been halted in my tracks by some " 500 connect time out" errors.

I've even set the proxy server, but with no success.

Following is the most recent version I've been using.

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#!C:\perl\bin

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $wsr = LWP::UserAgent -> new;
$wsr -> timeout( 20 );

$wsr->proxy(['http', 'ftp','https'], 'http://192.168.5.39:8080/');

my $url = shift or die "URL expected\n";
my $useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $request = HTTP::Request->new( HEAD => $url );
my $response = $useragent->request($request);

print $response->status_line, "\n";
print $response->is_success, "\n";

[download]
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Had some limited success but getting the timeout errors for most websites.

C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv4.pl http://www.hp.com

500 Can't connect to www.hp.com:80 (connect: timeout)

C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv4.pl http://www.hp.com:8080

500 Can't connect to www.hp.com:8080 (connect: timeout)

There doesn't seem any delay in accessing the internet from this particular server.

The following, a local site with no security restrictions, came back successfully.

C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv4.pl http://elm-as-01

200 OK

The thing is that the external websites (behind proxy) are givign time outs and not authenitcation or forbidden messages.

C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv4.pl http://www.google.com

500 Can't connect to www.google.com:80 (connect: timeout)

Lookin forward to your support

Thanks and regards,

-Alvi

In reply to LWP for URL monitoring - 500 connect timeout errors by oalvi

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