How to send a ping in LV ?

How can I send a ping in LV ?

The easiest way that I have found is to use System Exec. See the attached VI.
Good luck,
-Jim
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-- Set headers for type and length
utl_http.set_header(req,'Content-Type','application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
utl_http.set_header(req,'Content-Length',to_char(length(l_xml)));
-- Write parameter
utl_http.write_text(req,l_xml);
-- Read response file
resp := utl_http.get_response(req);
-- Print out the response headers
FOR i IN 1 .. utl_http.get_header_count(resp) LOOP
    utl_http.get_header(resp,i,header_name,header_value);
    logging_pkg.info(header_name || ': ' || header_value);
END LOOP;
-- Print out the response body
BEGIN
    LOOP
      utl_http.read_text(resp,response_text);
      logging_pkg.info(response_text);
    END LOOP;
EXCEPTION
    WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
      logging_pkg.info('End of body');
END;
-- close http connection
utl_http.end_response(resp);
EXCEPTION
    WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
      utl_http.end_response(resp);
END;
Cheers,
Brent

Hi Billy
Yikes - how embarassing ! Thanks for pointing out my beginners mistake there. I've fixed my code - and also implemented the substitutions of parameters like you suggested - I like that approach.
Unfortunately the end result is no better - the line
utl_http.read_text(resp,response_text);
Still returns nothing back
The headers that are coming back are
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:31:56 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3-1ubuntu9.3
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
I guess I will need to try chasing it with the fastsms vendor so see if they can check my incoming request and see if there are any glaring problems. I know the xml is correct as I am now logging the xml string just before I send it and when I take that string and put it in their test form it works perfectly - something else in the puzzle is missing. I've had no experience using utl_http before - perhaps it's no possible to read the xml repsonse using this ?
Anyway, thanks for your help Billy.
ps - How do you paste your code into your message to get that formatting ?
Cheers,
Brent

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