Expert: Prince M. Premnath - 8/23/2009

Question
How are you?
I'm trying to write a program that, among other things, needs to validate a website. Basically I need to know if a user-entered website exists or not. I don't know where to start. I was wondering if you could give me a lead with this. How to do this using C/C++ Thank you so much!

Answer
Hi dear Andres!

Am doing good!
 
 Use the ping Command which is available in windows , if you got the response from the given hostname which means the site is valid!
use the following program for a sample.
 
 http://p2p.wrox.com/c-programming/25941-ping-c.html

Use this for additional reference !
To query the DNS Server use the following resource.
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831226

Hope it will help you !
Get back to me if you require more support.
Thanks and Regards!
Prince M. Premnath