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Ping(host)

Last updated October 14, 2008

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Version: 1 | Requires: ColdFusion 8 | Library: NetLib

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Description:
Sometime you would like to ping URLs to check their availability just like using windows run command ping <ip/url>

Return Values:
A string containing the results of the ping.

Example:

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<h3>Ping Test</h3>
<cfoutput>
    Almontel 1: #Ping("www.almontel1.com")#<br>
    Almontel 2: #Ping("www.almontel2.com")#<br>
</cfoutput>

<h3>Ping Test</h3>
<cfoutput>
Almontel 1: #Ping("www.almontel1.com")#<br>
Almontel 2: #Ping("www.almontel2.com")#<br>
</cfoutput>

Parameters:

Name	Description	Required
host	URL/IP that you would like to ping.	Yes

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				ColdFISH is developed by Jason Delmore.  Source code and license information available at coldfish.riaforge.org.  Version 3.1.1
				
			<!---
 Pings a website using .net framework
 
 @param host 	 URL/IP that you would like to ping. (Required)
 @return A string containing the results of the ping. 
 @author Elias (&#101;&#108;&#105;&#97;&#115;&#106;&#112;&#64;&#109;&#115;&#110;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;) 
 @version 1, October 14, 2008 
--->
<cffunction name="Ping" returntype="string" output="false" access="public">
    <cfargument name="host" type="string" required="yes">
    <!--- Local vars --->
    <cfset var pingClass="">
    <cfset var pingReply="">
    <!--- Get Ping class --->
    <cfobject type=".NET" name="pingClass"
            class="System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping">
    <!--- Perform synchronous ping (using defaults) ---> 
    <cfset pingReply=pingClass.Send(Arguments.host)>
    <!--- Return result --->
    <cfreturn pingReply.Get_Status().ToString()>
</cffunction>
		<!---
 Pings a website using .net framework
 
 @param host      URL/IP that you would like to ping. (Required)
 @return A string containing the results of the ping. 
 @author Elias (eliasjp@msn.com) 
 @version 1, October 14, 2008 
--->
<cffunction name="Ping" returntype="string" output="false" access="public">
    <cfargument name="host" type="string" required="yes">
    <!--- Local vars --->
    <cfset var pingClass="">
    <cfset var pingReply="">
    <!--- Get Ping class --->
    <cfobject type=".NET" name="pingClass"
            class="System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping">
    <!--- Perform synchronous ping (using defaults) ---> 
    <cfset pingReply=pingClass.Send(Arguments.host)>
    <!--- Return result --->
    <cfreturn pingReply.Get_Status().ToString()>
</cffunction>