title: How do I ping from Flex - AIR?
body: <p>I'm bored cause my development server is down and I'm running the command prompt to ping the server indefinitely so that I'll see when they stop timing out and know that I can work again. In the meantime I wanted to make an Air app that will do this for me, so I can have it chirp or alarm or do something when it starts to be able to connect to the server.</p>
  
  <p>So I need to start with having AIR do the ping, does anyone know how to do this? I can't find any help on it. I can't use the HTTPService because whatever it is that is broken (think it's the VPN), our dev web site is still up.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>