Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()

  
	 
  
  
	 
Ping a server and record the response
	 
Scroll down to see page response  | 
		Reload this page with no query string  | 
		log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file
loaded htaccess.php


PHP $ping_destination is pooles


	 
This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log
		file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do
		anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.
	 
Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To
		inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not
		implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM
	 
Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

	 

		
?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and
		  write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
		
?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a
		  full line to the log file
		
?cron=headers — Write a line of column
		  headers to the log file and do nothing else
		

		  ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server
		  non-response. See note below.
		
 ?cron=default — Send a ping but only
		  write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron
		  parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action
		  initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
		
cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
		
cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like
		  cron=yes and can be used for testing
	 
	 
Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due
		course.
	 
Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue
		this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra
		mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry
		interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts
		to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.
	 
How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other
		than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page
		includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball
		rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information,
		which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data,
		which is also echoed below.
	 
Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)
	 

	 
END
  


Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 480.1
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 8
    [server_B] => 
    [http_B] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:38:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
debug:1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0	*1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0
write_new_log_line() says
TIME and DATE______	CHANGE	TIMING	VERSION________	TGT_SVR	REQUEST_FROM___	PROCESSED_AT___	QUERY	DESTINATION	PORT	RESPONSE______________________	PORT	RESPONSE

13:32:03, 16-Jun-24	changed	360.2/7	B3_5v4/main-v2b	Twist..	bcra.org.uk	bcra.org.uk	cron	pooles.bc..	8080	PHP:Connection timed out	3927	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => PHP:Connection timed out
    [elapsed] => 360.2
    [errstr] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => 
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 
    [attempts] => 7
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 
    [lastWell] => 1718531523
    [changed] => changed
    [lastAlert] => 1718532603
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=7ccdda84; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
debug:1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0	*1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0
write_new_log_line() says
TIME and DATE______	CHANGE	TIMING	VERSION________	TGT_SVR	REQUEST_FROM___	PROCESSED_AT___	QUERY	DESTINATION	PORT	RESPONSE______________________	PORT	RESPONSE
13:42:03, 16-Jun-24	alert	0.3/2	B3_5v4/main-v2b	Twist..	bcra.org.uk	bcra.org.uk	cron	pooles.bc..	8080	HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized	3927	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 
    [lastWell] => 1718541724
    [changed] => alert
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6e6a7df8; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.5
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718542325
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=319fd192; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718542924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=75044046; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718543524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1d3cfc58; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 1.1
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718544124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4e6e76d3; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718544724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=122c8e5f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718545324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1501cc7a; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718545924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=46fe655f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718546525
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1c8f7a29; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718547123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=60853eb2; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718547723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=249e9aca; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718548323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=276fd99b; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718548923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=592db275; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718549524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5d06e724; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718550124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=72481fb9; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718550723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:22:01 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1a62cab9; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.5
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718551323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4af96ef0; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718551923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4f03d949; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718552523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=12f751b8; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718553123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4484c26f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718553724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5a5932d8; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718554323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=0b82ddff; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718554924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=0ef2a958; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718555524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=12c8e53f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718556124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=568bd55f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718556724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=59a513b7; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718557324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5d10c72c; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718557924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=0ef40dca; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718558524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=243667e7; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718559123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:42:30 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=7e45b879; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
RESPONSE from error_get_last()
Array
(
    [type] => 2
    [message] => get_headers(http://pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927): failed to open stream: Connection timed out
    [file] => /home/bcra/public_html/data/cron/new/ping_a_server_rpi-v2.php
    [line] => 159
)
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:43:39 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
debug:1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0	*1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0
write_new_log_line() says
TIME and DATE______	CHANGE	TIMING	VERSION________	TGT_SVR	REQUEST_FROM___	PROCESSED_AT___	QUERY	DESTINATION	PORT	RESPONSE______________________	PORT	RESPONSE

18:42:30, 16-Jun-24	changed	68.4/3	B3_5v4/main-v2b	Twist..	bcra.org.uk	bcra.org.uk	cron	pooles.bc..	8080	HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized	3927	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 68.4
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 3
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 
    [lastWell] => 1718559819
    [changed] => changed
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=2b531363; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
debug:1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0	*1	*2	*3	*4	*5	*6	*7	*8	*9	*0
write_new_log_line() says
TIME and DATE______	CHANGE	TIMING	VERSION________	TGT_SVR	REQUEST_FROM___	PROCESSED_AT___	QUERY	DESTINATION	PORT	RESPONSE______________________	PORT	RESPONSE
18:52:03, 16-Jun-24	changed	0.3/2	B3_5v4/main-v2b	Twist..	bcra.org.uk	bcra.org.uk	cron	pooles.bc..	8080	HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized	3927	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 
    [lastWell] => 1718560323
    [changed] => changed
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4a7a8629; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718560925
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=722fdb4e; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718561523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=76515bfc; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718562124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=79aa05ec; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718562723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=7cfaa738; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:42:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718563324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=018ac1c1; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718563923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=448a2291; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718564524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=47bb21e5; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718565123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5e202621; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.9
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718565724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=2130764e; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718566323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5263a0ec; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:42:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718566924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=28575000; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 19:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718567523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=472b7ff2; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718568125
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1cff115b; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718568724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=3316cb33; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718569323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=76ede4b0; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718569923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=3a177063; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718570523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=3d9e507e; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718571123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6f6bd52d; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718571724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=0505baaa; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718572323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=08a3faaa; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718572923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=79fa613d; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718573524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4fc4facb; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718574123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=12cbd055; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718574723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=447e3fb1; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718575324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=5a1394e9; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718575923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1d76ef26; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718576523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:32:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=215c63ae; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.2
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718577123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=248455df; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718577723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=287828de; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718578323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=07b31ec7; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says

*
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718578925
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6ffc5628; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718579523
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=613a838b; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718580123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=51c63c70; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718580724
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=563b5437; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:42:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718581324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:52:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=3d749b03; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718581923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1ce87738; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718582524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=72dc4280; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718583124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=363c2a86; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718583723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=7a1497c0; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718584324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4f9f8350; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718584923
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=2e8f18cb; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718585524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=052c44be; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.2
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718586124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4873af09; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718586723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:22:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=1d25608f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.9
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718587324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:32:05 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=2adf6343; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:32:07 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718587926
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:42:05 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6eb98b81; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:42:07 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718588526
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=168ce296; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718589124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=07cd96ec; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:02:06 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718589725
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:12:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6f57860f; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718590323
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=218b5c50; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718590924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:32:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=64156823; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718591524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=676986c6; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718592123
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=2c157e47; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718592723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:02:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=6f81aad1; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718593324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:12:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=32b70e7c; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:12:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718593924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:22:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=36b002b6; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:22:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.5
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718594524
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:32:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=281ec771; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:32:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718595124
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:42:02 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=4fbd18fe; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:42:03 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718595723
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

Scroll down to see page response  |  Reload this page with no query string  |  log file

Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:52:03 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=41cf2417; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 03:52:04 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
.
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718596324
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)

END

Ping a server and record the response

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Because this page runs on my Raspberry Pi, it cannot use .user.ini so, at this point, we load a PHP configuration file loaded htaccess.php

PHP $ping_destination is pooles

This page sends an http request to a specified server and records the response in a log file. It sends an SMS message to warn of a server 's non-response. To get this page to do anything, the query string must specify a 'cron' parameter, so select one from the list below.

Note: during testing, it might be helpful to inhibit the sending of SMS messages. To inhibit SMS messages, by adding sms=no to the query string, tick this box: not implemented yet - needs page to be converted to a FORM

Note: check whether catalogue file sets _SMS_INHIBIT.

• ?cron=manual — Manually request a ping and write a full line to the log file (This will trigger an alert if one is due)
• ?cron=alert — Force an alert and write a full line to the log file
• ?cron=headers — Write a line of column headers to the log file and do nothing else
• ?cron=badport — Use a known bad port to force a server non-response. See note below.
• ?cron=default — Send a ping but only write a full log line if something has changed (essentially the server response or the cron parameter), else write a 'continuation dot'. Trigger an alert if one is due. This is the action initiated by a CRON job, but the CRON job uses cron=yes.
• cron=yes — Do not use! action is same as cron=default
• cron=<any> — Any other value has an action like cron=yes and can be used for testing

Further detailed notes are given in the individual PHP files, and will be moved here in due course.

Note: To simulate a server non-response, a bad port is specified in the catalogue this page is run with cron=badport. This may take a while t ocomplete because the progra mwill try multiple times, with an interval between. If the connection timeout is 10s and the retry interval is 30s, it will take 80s to get an answer. Also, be eware that repeated attemnpts to access a non-existent port might trigger a security error.

How this page works: If no cron parameter is given, this page does nothing other than display the above text. If a cron parameter is given, then at this point, the page includes some PHP files and executes the PHP function main() to set the ball rolling. Various other PHP functions will execute and probably output some debugging information, which will display below. When everything is complete, main() will return some data, which is also echoed below.

Page Response

Loading catalogue...
Loading new_ping.php...
This is new_ping.php
Loading main...
Loading ping_a_server...
Loading sms_via_api...
Running main()...
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:8080 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:04 GMT
    [2] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [3] => Connection: close
    [4] => WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="DSL-N14U"
    [5] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
    [6] => Set-Cookie: SESSIONID=327937ad; path=/
)
DEBUG: defined('_TARGET_PORT_B')
get_headers() was run on pooles.bcra.org.uk:3927 and returned this array...
Array
(
    [0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [1] => Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:02:05 GMT
    [2] => Connection: close
    [3] => Content-type: text/html; charset=utf8
    [4] => Content-length: 1772
    [5] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
)
write_log_continuation() says
/
main() responded with ...
Array
(
    [http] => HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
    [elapsed] => 0.3
    [errstr] => 
    [host] => pooles.bcra.org.uk
    [port] => 8080
    [path] => 
    [timeout] => 15
    [server] => Server: Boa/0.94.13
    [whoAmI] => 
    [link_ok] => 1
    [attempts] => 2
    [server_B] => Server: TwistedWeb/2.0.1
    [http_B] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    [port_B] => 3927
    [errstr_B] => 
    [cron] => yes
    [continues] => 1
    [lastWell] => 1718596924
    [changed] => xchange
    [lastAlert] => 1718541724
)