what is the best way to see if a web page is up. I am talking to many web devices and some have an old IP address and but i dont know that until i try to open the page.
Right now I wait for timeout (I reduced the timeout period to 15 secs) But I am looking at 100's of devices and dont want to wait that much time. I can ping the device and i thought of doing that before opening web page.
is there a better way?
thanks
additional info:
sometimes you can ping the device but the web page does not responsed. Also had to increase timeout to 30 secs seems that some devices are slower than others.
Question: Does not seem like a get an error on a failed web page. Is there a way to enable telling me the page failed?
There are a couple of things you can do here, based on your scenario.
1) You can look for some specific content of the page that is guaranteed to be there
2) If your server is sending an HTTP error code, like 404 then you can listen to OnWebHTTPError event and fail your test case accordingly
