Andrew,
Yep, the monitor is a beauty. Still don't know if it's going to hang, but it's got all the features I wanted (and was writing :-) .
David

>David,
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>Have you had a look at Rick's West Wind Web Monitor. It's a neat little app that does what you're after. It can monitor as many sites as you like, check for a particluar string in the HTML returned etc, and when it detects a site that's down, it can do any or all of:
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Send an e-mail
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Call a web address (perhaps a reset page)
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Kick off an exe on the monitoring machine
>We use it quite a bit to monitor a WWC site at 90 second intervals and it works like a charm.
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>Cheers,
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>Andrew
>
>>We had a period yesterday where a client's MIIS was misbehaving badly because of a mail server load and I was writing an app to detect when our VFP generated site was down.
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>>So the technique I wanted to use was simply to request a dynamic page using wwipstuff.httpget() and then comparing the content with what it should be.
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>>However when the remote IIS was misbehaving the following code line, in wwipstuff.httpgetex(), causes VFP to hang indefinitely.
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lnRetval=HttpSendRequest(hHTTPResult,;
>>   tcHeaders,LEN(tcHeaders),;
>>   lcPostBuffer,tnPostSize)

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>>SO even though at this stage we had a valid "connect", the httpsendrequest failed and never timed out. (Timeout is set to 5 seconds.)
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>>So this means my app is useless for detecting such an outage.
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>>Anyone know an answer or can suggest another method?