True, telnet does not work in batch. You might want to try wget instead. You
can pick up wget from http://jazz.external.hp.com/src

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Waters" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:58 AM
Subject: Testing Webserver Availability


> I am looking for a way to test the availability of our webserver from a
> batch job on the HP3000. I was using Telnet online to access the webserver
> on port 80 and then typing the http commands and waiting for the webserver
> to respond. This worked great. Unfortunately Telnet does not run in batch.
>
> The commands I was entring were:
>
> GET /cgi-bin/webtest HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.cannex.com
> Accept: */*
>
> Does anyone have a method, without having to write a program in a 3GL,
that
> would accomplish this simple task.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Steven Waters