CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

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:

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

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

<!---
 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>