From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2009-07-24T03:48:21+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:
> Can anyone think of a better way to do this?  Or point me to some
> SafariWatir documentation?  What ever I use needs to be able to handle
> Javascript and cookies.

OK, re-read.   _Why_ does it need to handle javascript and cookies?

To monitor if it's up and responding, you really only need to get
straight http, check that you didn't get an error code (401 404 etc),
and parse the resulting html to make sure it's not an error message
from your application.

Now, if you really need something that will handle cookies, and do
logins etc (but not javascript), you_could_ use JMeter, but it's
probably overkill to use it just to see if a site is up...