Pinging - how to ping an ftp or http

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Whoops! I guess I should have told you that I need to do it in a perl script, not manually.

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[Rob P]
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They have: 850 posts

Joined: Jul 1999

Can anyone direct me to info or write a quick example of how to Ping a host (both ftp and http) ? I may need the info in a future project, just to see if the host is *up* or not.

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[Rob P]
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