A gist for checking web status

checkStatusPage.ps1

function checkStatusPages([string]$url){
	# First we create the request.
	$HTTP_Request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)

	# We then get a response from the site.
	$HTTP_Response = $HTTP_Request.GetResponse()

	# We then get the HTTP code as an integer.
	$HTTP_Status = [int]$HTTP_Response.StatusCode

	If ($HTTP_Status -eq 200) {
		Write-Host "Site is OK! " $url
	}
	Else {
		Write-Host "The Site may be down, please check! "$url
	}

	# Finally, we clean up the http request by closing it.
	If ($HTTP_Response -eq $null) { } 
	Else { $HTTP_Response.Close() }
}

$urlToCheck = @(
'http://www.google.com',
'http://www.facebook.com',
'http://pepitolospalotes.cal'
)

For ($i=0; $i -le $urlToCheck.count-1; $i++) {
   checkStatusPages($urlToCheck[$i])
}