We use VisualCron to check websites for up/down state at a set time everynight. If the site is up, the job completes. If the site is down or broken, we get the standard friendly error message (404, etc).

If the same procedure is followed manually, you can set Internet Explorer to show the code of the website that returned the error. Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, UNCHECK "Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages".

We want the ability in the VisualCron job. Any ideas? Since it is running as a service, how do we tell it to return the Non friendly http error message?

TIA

You might want to try this:

Login on the server with a local user with the rights to do what you want to do. Setup the friendly errors in IE.
Let the VC service use this user.

Could this work, I donno, just guessing here. Might be a profile issue.

Regards,
Erik

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Tried that direction already. No dice.

Hi knip,

You can try an external tool called 'wget' for this I think.
With this you can setup a commandline to display the server response (-S).
Play a little with all the commandline settings to get what you want.

Regards,
Erik

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knip, if you are talking about showing the "source" of the original reponse that is not possible unless you use other tool like the ones Erik mention. In VisualCron we only capture response code and the verbose error in the standard output column.

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