Checking a live stream?

[dgrim3]

Hello everyone,

I apologize if this is not the right forum for this. I am trying to figure out a way to check if a particular URI to an .asx file is streaming or if the source is not running. I have 64 different possible publication points that could be streaming (64 different URI's) and I'm trying to figure out a way to "check" them all to see if there is streaming. If there is a stream, I archive otherwise I do nothing and check the next URI. This is a process that would be constantly running in the background of our server.

When I implement this logic in code, I want to do something like this:

If(there is a stream coming from http://www.blah.com/point0003.asx)
-start archiving the stream

else
-do nothing

The archiving is taken care of, i'm just trying to figure out how to check the streams. I would prefer to be able to do this in C# (or java), but would love any solution to the problem.

Thanks for your time,

Dan

[dgrim3]

I found a way to do this using Java's HttpURLConnection class. If anyone is interested feel free to ask.