How do I check if a website is up?

[James]

On Mon, October 20, 2008 10:18 am, Josh Wells wrote:
> Do I have to define a remote host such as www.website.com in order to
> apply the check_http service against that host?

A service needs a host so I think so.
It doesn't need to be www though, as long as port 80 answers.

All it does it telnet to port 80 and do a 'GET /' to see if the main page
is up.
I modified my check_http to look somewhere else beside /.



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