# Synchronously ping a server/url?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/synchronously-ping-a-server-url/283200
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [March 3, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/synchronously-ping-a-server-url/283200 "2009-03-03T16:46:11Z")
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### Author: ![cFoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@cFoo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cFoo)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/synchronously-ping-a-server-url/283200/1 "2009-03-03T16:46:11Z")

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Can someone please, pretty please point me to or show me how to synchronously ping a server in AS3? Everything in AS3 seems to be asynchronous ☹