Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:21:26 +0100 Manfred Lotz wrote: > Thanks. The attached program does better as https://notabug.org > works. Only http://scripts.sil.org doesn't work. It seems there are > special checks active on that site. Yeah, some sites block user-agents recognised as robots, scripts

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 05:46:33 -0600 Mike Flannigan wrote: > See if some version of the attached program > gives the results you expect. > > > Mike > > Thanks. The attached program does better as https://notabug.org works. Only http://scripts.sil.org doesn't work. It seems there are special ch

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

See if some version of the attached program gives the results you expect. Mike On 2/13/2018 8:33 PM, beginners-digest-h...@perl.org wrote: I tried WWW::Mechanize, and (of course) got also 403. Really strange. Is there another tool I could use for checking? I mean some tool in the Perl univ

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

> Is there another tool I could use for checking? I mean some tool in the Perl universe? Well, lwp-dump is a perl util - comes w/ LWP I believe. The sil.org, for one, just returns forbidden/403 for their own policy reasons, but as far as your "is it up?" question, that should be answer enough. It

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:50:55 -0600 Andy Bach wrote: > $ wget http://scripts.sil.org/OFL > --2018-02-13 13:42:50-- http://scripts.sil.org/OFL > Resolving scripts.sil.org (scripts.sil.org)... 209.12.63.143 > Connecting to scripts.sil.org (scripts.sil.org)|209.12.63.143|:80... > connected. > HTTP r

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

$ wget http://scripts.sil.org/OFL --2018-02-13 13:42:50-- http://scripts.sil.org/OFL Resolving scripts.sil.org (scripts.sil.org)... 209.12.63.143 Connecting to scripts.sil.org (scripts.sil.org)|209.12.63.143|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://scrip

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:47:42 -0600 Andy Bach wrote: > The site doesn't like 'head' requests? get works > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > use LWP::Simple; > # my $url="https://shlomif.github.io/";; > my $url="http://www.notabug.org/";; > print "$url is ", ( >

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

The site doesn't like 'head' requests? get works #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; # my $url="https://shlomif.github.io/";; my $url="http://www.notabug.org/";; print "$url is ", ( (! get($url)) ? "DOWN" : "up"

Re: Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

Hi Manfred! On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:25:31 +0100 Manfred Lotz wrote: > Hi there, > Somewhere I found an example how to check if a website is up. > > Here my sample: > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > > use LWP::Simple; > my $url="https://notabug.org";; > if (! head($url)) { > die "$url

Checking if a website is up doesn't work correctly

Hi there, Somewhere I found an example how to check if a website is up. Here my sample: #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use LWP::Simple; my $url="https://notabug.org";; if (! head($url)) { die "$url is DOWN" } Running above code I get https://notabug.org is DOWN at ./check_url.pl l