[PLUG] command line check for streaming content

Derek Loree derek at infotects.com
Thu Jun 20 00:24:09 UTC 2002


On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 16:43, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> 
> On 19 Jun 2002, Derek Loree wrote:
> > I would like to be able to use a cron type job to verify the
> > availability of a list of video content, sort of like a ping test for
> > a list of url's.
> 
> wget.
> 
> wget -S --spider -i url.list
> 
> This'll go through the list of URLs in the file url.list and return the
> HTTP responses for each URL in turn.
> 
> You've gotta parse those responses, though.
> 
> > I've searched the web, and looked long and hard at the lynx man page,
> > but I'm not sure where to begin.  I guess that I just need a tool that
> > will give a "yes" or "no" depending on whether or not it could find
> > the file on a streaming server.
> 
> Oh, a streaming server?  Is it just http?  If it's any of that
> mms: garbage, wget won't do it.

Well, ultimately there is mms: garbage at the other end, but I may be
able to get away with just checking the connection to the http://*.asx
file.

I didn't know wget had those capabilities, thanks for the info.

Derek






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