Determine if a website is online..

[MarkusJ_NZ]

Hi, Does anyone have any code that I can rip that checks to see if a website is online???

Cheers
MarkusJ

[DevGrp]

You can try to ping the website using the process class.
Here is an example.


Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As New Process()

With p
.StartInfo.Arguments = "www.microsoft.com"
.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal
.StartInfo.FileName = "ping"
End With

p.Start()
p.WaitForExit()

If (p.ExitCode = 1) Then 'if exit code is 0 then website is up
MessageBox.Show("Website down")
End If

End Sub

[MarkusJ_NZ]

Awesome, that's exactly what I am after
Thanks
MarkusJ