Determine if a website is online..

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

Cheers
MarkusJ

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

VB Code:

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

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