Ping Server

pingserver.py

import web
import subprocess

urls = (
    '/ping/(.*)/', 'ping'
)

app = web.application(urls, globals())

class ping:        
    def GET(self, ip):
        result = subprocess.call(["ping", "-c", "1", ip])

        # return code zero means that ping worked
        if result == 0:
            return "ok"
        else:
            return "not ok"

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

You will need to install web.py from http://webpy.org/ (that's easy). Run this by doing:

python pingserver.py 10000

then in your browser to go http://localhost:10000/ping/localhost/ (i.e. connect to server running on local machine and attempt to ping self).

Where the number is the port you want to run it on.

To go with https://gist.github.com/788658.