How to check if a web service is up and running without using ping?

Question

How can i check if a method in a web service is working fine or not ? I cannot use ping. I still want to check any kind of method being invoked from the web service by the c

Answer 1

You may try curl. It's a Linux tool, should be there in Cygwin too.

$ curl http://google.com


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There are lots of options; examples can be found in the 'net.