Pinging ports

Nice trick! :)

m0rtimer wrote:
> open or closed so it would be possible to determine if the camera's on or off.
> Maybe it's not possible and I'm just being too hopeful

see what this does.

<cfscript>
try {
socket=CreateObject("java", "java.net.Socket");
readerObj=createObject("java","java.io.InputStreamReader");
bufferedObj=createObject("java","java.io.BufferedReader");
hostIP=javacast("string", "xxxxx"); // your remote host goes here
dayTimePort=javacast("int",25);
socket.init(hostIP, dayTimePort);
socket.setSoTimeout(1000); // some reasonable timeout value
inReader=readerObj.init(socket.getInputStream());
bReader=bufferedObj.init(inReader);
isAlive=true;
// check that box
tStamp=bReader.readLine();
ServerIP = socket.toString();
ServerPort = socket.getPort(); // really?
socket.close();
if (isAlive)
writeoutput("server #serverIP# (#serverPort#) is alive at #tStamp#");
} // try
catch (Any e) {
socket.close();
isAlive=false;
writeoutput("server #hostIP# (#dayTimePort#) is dead as a doorknob at #now()#");
}
</cfscript>