ping server using Curl

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Hi,

How can I check, server availability at a particular IP address.When am directly using cURL to pass arguments to server, and do some operation, its taking really long time to through error if server is not available.

Some solution please..

Thanks and regards
Vamshi

Posted 22-Jul-13 0:31am

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Updated 22-Jul-13 0:34am

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max_nowak · Answer 1 · 2013-07-22T02:41:00

Solution 1

I would have tried this:

C#

int result = system("ping /*host ip*/");

if(result == 0)
{
    /* host responding */
    /* launch cURL call */
}

You will need stdlib.h for this I believe.

Edit:
Just found out that we already have a cool wrapper component on this forum for ping issues:
CPing v1.22[^]

Posted 22-Jul-13 2:41am

max_nowak

Updated 22-Jul-13 21:02pm

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