I may be reading the question wrong but why not test for port 80 or 443?
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:18 AM, John D. Alexander < JAlexander at feeneywireless.com> wrote:
I would like to test for the absence of the http service on a system and alert if it responds to http.
This is easy with most of the other network tests using a negation (!). Ideas?
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