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From: Wayne-I-M on 5 Apr 2010 10:54
Hi

This may not be possible but ....... :-) and also may be the wrong place to
ask but many people on here seem to know lots about things like this, so....

I have a number of FP websites and I need to know when the server is down or
working - it's does seem to be down a lot ???
I have a small DLL set up that checks when my internet connection is up and
running and when it's not.

This is the DLL

:TOP
@echo off
for /f "delims=." %%X in ('ping -n 1 google.com') do if "%%X"=="Request
timed out" (echo %date% %time% >> C:\pingfail.txt)
sleep 300
GOTO TOP

All this does is to ping google and tell me if the ping comes back or not.
I have set up an access database to collect the info and created a report - I
know it could be done in excel but I write access all the time so it's just
simpler for me that way.

OK - can the code above be altered or something else written to do this. ???

There is a site that I have been looking at and it has an option group
(dropdown) that has months (as text).
June
July
August
etc
etc

Is there any way that I can ping this site to know when the text March
appears in the option group.

I can set up the ping to run every 10 mins or so.

Any ideas - can it be done ?





--
Wayne
Manchester, England.

From: Wayne-I-M on 5 Apr 2010 10:59
Or (just a thought) has anyone ever set up windows scheduler to run internet
explorer, refresh a website (could make it the default) and then check of a
item of text in the source

ha ha ha like I said may not be possible.

I hope it is

--
Wayne
Manchester, England.



"Wayne-I-M" wrote:

> Hi
>
> This may not be possible but ....... :-) and also may be the wrong place to
> ask but many people on here seem to know lots about things like this, so....
>
> I have a number of FP websites and I need to know when the server is down or
> working - it's does seem to be down a lot ???
> I have a small DLL set up that checks when my internet connection is up and
> running and when it's not.
>
> This is the DLL
>
> :TOP
> @echo off
> for /f "delims=." %%X in ('ping -n 1 google.com') do if "%%X"=="Request
> timed out" (echo %date% %time% >> C:\pingfail.txt)
> sleep 300
> GOTO TOP
>
> All this does is to ping google and tell me if the ping comes back or not.
> I have set up an access database to collect the info and created a report - I
> know it could be done in excel but I write access all the time so it's just
> simpler for me that way.
>
> OK - can the code above be altered or something else written to do this. ???
>
> There is a site that I have been looking at and it has an option group
> (dropdown) that has months (as text).
> June
> July
> August
> etc
> etc
>
> Is there any way that I can ping this site to know when the text March
> appears in the option group.
>
> I can set up the ping to run every 10 mins or so.
>
> Any ideas - can it be done ?
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Wayne
> Manchester, England.
>
From: Jon Spivey on 5 Apr 2010 13:32
What language are you using? It should be easy enough to connect to a site
read the HTML and check for a character, eg in asp
<%
set xmlhttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP")
xmlhttp.open "GET", "http://google.com", false
xmlhttp.send ""
if instr(xmlhttp.responseText, "whatever") > 0 then
' do something
end if
%>

If you wanted to schedule this via windows you could make it a .vbs file
then set it up through task scheduler.

Cheers,
Jon

"Wayne-I-M" <WayneIM(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E854DCBC-E324-4727-9C0B-9F38149339C6(a)microsoft.com...
> Or (just a thought) has anyone ever set up windows scheduler to run
> internet
> explorer, refresh a website (could make it the default) and then check of
> a
> item of text in the source
>
> ha ha ha like I said may not be possible.
>
> I hope it is
>
> --
> Wayne
> Manchester, England.
>
>
>
> "Wayne-I-M" wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> This may not be possible but ....... :-) and also may be the wrong place
>> to
>> ask but many people on here seem to know lots about things like this,
>> so....
>>
>> I have a number of FP websites and I need to know when the server is down
>> or
>> working - it's does seem to be down a lot ???
>> I have a small DLL set up that checks when my internet connection is up
>> and
>> running and when it's not.
>>
>> This is the DLL
>>
>> :TOP
>> @echo off
>> for /f "delims=." %%X in ('ping -n 1 google.com') do if "%%X"=="Request
>> timed out" (echo %date% %time% >> C:\pingfail.txt)
>> sleep 300
>> GOTO TOP
>>
>> All this does is to ping google and tell me if the ping comes back or
>> not.
>> I have set up an access database to collect the info and created a
>> report - I
>> know it could be done in excel but I write access all the time so it's
>> just
>> simpler for me that way.
>>
>> OK - can the code above be altered or something else written to do this.
>> ???
>>
>> There is a site that I have been looking at and it has an option group
>> (dropdown) that has months (as text).
>> June
>> July
>> August
>> etc
>> etc
>>
>> Is there any way that I can ping this site to know when the text March
>> appears in the option group.
>>
>> I can set up the ping to run every 10 mins or so.
>>
>> Any ideas - can it be done ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Wayne
>> Manchester, England.
>>


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