URL Check taking a long time.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:42 am

Hi all,

I've got a test that checks a URL availability which works ok, BUT if the URL is not avialable it takes a very very long time to twig its not there, so for example its down at the moment, but hostmon is sitting there ssaying checking at the moment, and has been for the last 10 mins, eventually it does alert but it takes a lonooong time,
any ideas.?

Thanks

Stu

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 2:28 pm

What value of "Timeout" field have you set?

Regards
Alex

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 1:57 am

I've tried both settings, windows default, and specified as a second or 2 either makes no difference...

Stu

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 6:48 am

H'm.. may be some problem with wininet.dll
What version of Internet Explorer is installed on your system?

Are you checking HTTP server? In this case you may try to use HTTP test method instead of URL test method. HTTP test method doesn't use wininet.dll

Regards
Alex

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 5:35 am

IE is current at version 6, its checking a url which is a sub site of the main site which antoher test checks, the top level check is really fast and faultless, its the sub check that takes a age..

Very strange.!

Stu

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 7:30 am

Could you try to use HTTP test method instead of URL?

Regards
Alex