How to quickly check if URL server is available

Question

I have a URL in the form

http://www.mywebsite.com/util/conv?a=1&from=%s&to=%s

And want to check if it is available.

The lin

Answer 1

here the writer suggests this:

public boolean isOnline() {
    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    try {
        Process ipProcess = runtime.exec("/system/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8");
        int     exitValue = ipProcess.waitFor();
        return (exitValue == 0);
    } catch (IOException | InterruptedException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    return false;
}

Couldn’t I just ping my own page, which I want to request anyways?Sure! You could even check both, if you want to differentiate between “internet connection available” and your own servers beeing reachable

read the link. its seems very good

EDIT: in my exp of using it, it's not as fast as this method:

public boolean isOnline() {
    NetworkInfo netInfo = connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
    return netInfo != null && netInfo.isConnectedOrConnecting();
}

they are a bit different but in the functionality for just checking the connection to internet the first method may become slow due to the connection variables.