Re: Website Status


trpost@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am looking to create a small Java application that will take a URL
and display the status

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as well as some statistics about the page
download speed

This is especially arbitrary information that depends
on a lot of factors, including the user's connection speed,
local caching, network(s) usage and host server speed. *

..and page size,

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection.html
...is your friend for the page size, as well as other
useful information.

...but am having trouble getting started.

* ..but URLconnectrion also has a method to getContent,
so if you time how long it takes to get the content, you can
divide that time into the size to get an idea of the download
speed of this page for this user (at this moment in time).

Also, attempting to openConnection() or getInputStream()
should tell youthe page status as far as 'available/off-line' -
but be careful as the 'page found' might be a '404' status
(page not found) web-page.

HTH

Andrew T.

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