Can you cross-site ping another site using C# or JS/Ajax?

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Published on 2010-03-29T15:54:44Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 16:03 UTC
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On our web application I am trying to ping a 3rd party site to see if it is up before redirecting our customers to it. So far I have not seen a way to do this other than from a desktop app or system console. Is this possible? I have heard that there was an image trick in original ASP.

Currently we are using .NET MVC with Javascript.

Thank you,

Josh

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