RE: web shot script

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On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 18:48 -0500, Joey wrote:
> Sorry for the delay.
> 
> The purpose is to be able to see what is running on a site at any given time.
> If we are webhosting we want to make sure something is live or not and see the whole page, without visiting each and every site.  Plus the sites might change so we want to know at any given time.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Lucas [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 11:48 AM
> > To: Andrew Barnett
> > Cc: Afan Pasalic; Joey; PHP
> > Subject: Re:  web shot script
> > 
> > Andrew Barnett wrote:
> > > You might actually be onto something there Afan.
> > >
> > > As long as Ghostscript and Imagemagick are installed on the server, you will
> > > be able to convert a PDF to an image. So maybe that will help.
> > >
> > > Although, is it possible to have a continuous length PDF, or does it only
> > > fit to specific page sizes.
> > >
> > > Its probably worth a shot though Joey.
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > 
> > Isn't the idea of getting different screen shots about SEEING how the page
> > looks on various system configurations?  Windows, Mac, *nix then throw in
> > various browsers like IE, FF, Opera, Google?
> > 
> > This is the service that I thought these other companies provided.  You could
> > probably do something like this on one computer by having VMWare (or similar)
> > software running to see all the different renderings.
> > 
> > --
> > Jim Lucas
> > 
> >    "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
> >        and some have greatness thrust upon them."
> > 
> > Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
> >     by William Shakespeare
> 
> 
> 
Why don't you set up a cron job (can be on any computer, doesn't have to
be the server) that just grabs a page from a list of sites using wget.
You could then check for the response codes for any problems, and
possible add a grep in there to make sure the site is not showing any
errors?


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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