From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2010-06-03T04:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: webserver status, need better approach

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Walle Wallen <walle.sthlm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I need a better way of checking if a webserver  is online and
> operational. The following code works ok, but it sometimes returns the wrong result.

Under what circumstances does it fail?

> def check_http(server)
>  Timeout::timeout(10.0) do
>    if(Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://#{server}.something.com")).code == "200")
>    return true
>    end
>    return false
>  end
>  rescue Timeout::Error
>  return false
>  rescue
>  return false
>  end

In any case, that seems rather convoluted; I cut it down to this:

def check_http(server)
 Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://#{server}")).code == "200"
end

:: and it seemed to work just fine.  :-)

FWIW,
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