Although we expect our favourite websites on the internet to run all the time, sometimes it is just not the case for variety of reasons. For the system administrators it is useful to know, that the website is not working any more. And there are a lot of tools which do monitor just that.
Bus as a user, it is sometimes frustrating to sit in front of a timeout page of the browser hitting the 'reload' button.
IsUpYet is a small program, which does the reloading for us in the background. It tries to check if the webpage is online and if yes, notifies you via growl message.
- OS X with Growl installed
- growlnotify command-line program
The program is written in haskell. I've created it on GHC 7.0.3.
For now,
- please clone the repository
- run
cabal install - run the program
isupyet <hostname>