MikeR wrote:
> Cornie wrote:
>> I would like to check if a website is available and then do a download
>> from there. I have sorted the download part out, but want to check
>> regally to see if the web site is available. My clients mostly use
>> dial-up connections, so I want to "ping" the web site about every 5
>> min and if found then download the file.
> Why not just try to download the file, and handle the failure if it's
> not there. Is a ping less costly?
And the website could go down after the successful ping and before the
download attempt. The download has to tolerate the website being down
so why ping.
