From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T03:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Watching a website for periodic outages

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Glen Holcomb<damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm needing to monitor a web application for periodic outages and log the
> duration.
>
> I originally tried this with SafariWatir as the login is javascript so I
> can't use Mechanize.  However Watir seems to give up if the page takes

Other than using a monitoring package like Zenoss or Natgios like Kyle said?
Sure, you could use the ruby HTTP classes.
http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/classes/Net/HTTP.html

Read the examples, they will prettymuch show you exactly what you need
to do to get a page.  The read more to learn how to set your timeout,
etc.

Put it in a loop, catch the exceptions, toss it in a log file with
stuff like log4r, or just plain old file output.

Enjoy!
--Kyle