{"id":662,"date":"2008-06-06T12:42:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T11:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?page_id=662"},"modified":"2008-06-06T12:42:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T11:42:41","slug":"a-simple-vb-web-monitor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/articles\/a-simple-vb-web-monitor","title":{"rendered":"A simple VB Web Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an application written as a sample for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcw.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Computer World<\/a>. Its purpose is to monitor the health of one or more web sites. There&#8217;s plenty that could be done to improve it, but it works as-is:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/webmonitor.gif\" alt=\"Web monitor application\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the app checks that a list of urls, verifies that they are alive, and lets you check the content for errors.<\/p>\n<p>The code is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/repos\/webmonitor\/trunk\/webmonitor.zip\">here<\/a>; or you can view the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/repos\/webmonitor\/trunk\/\">repository here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of thing I may improve over time; let me know if you have suggestions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an application written as a sample for Personal Computer World. Its purpose is to monitor the health of one or more web sites. There&#8217;s plenty that could be done to improve it, but it works as-is: The idea is that the app checks that a list of urls, verifies that they are alive, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/articles\/a-simple-vb-web-monitor\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A simple VB Web Monitor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2036,"menu_order":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-662","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/662\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}