--- loncom/cgi/ping.pl	2002/02/18 20:59:36	1.1
+++ loncom/cgi/ping.pl	2002/05/11 21:31:41	1.2
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 
 $|=1;
 
+use lib '/home/httpd/lib/perl/';
+use LONCAPA::Configuration;
+
 use IO::File;
 use IO::Socket;
 
@@ -25,19 +28,12 @@ sub reply {
 }
 
 
-# ------------------------------------------------------------ Read access.conf
-{
-    my $config=IO::File->new("/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf");
-
-    while (my $configline=<$config>) {
-        if ($configline =~ /PerlSetVar/) {
-	   my ($dummy,$varname,$varvalue)=split(/\s+/,$configline);
-           $perlvar{$varname}=$varvalue;
-        }
-    }
-    delete $perlvar{'lonReceipt'}; # remove since sensitive and not needed
-    delete $perlvar{'lonSqlAccess'}; # remove since sensitive and not needed
-}
+# ------------------------------------------- Read access.conf and loncapa.conf
+my $perlvarref=LONCAPA::Configuration::read_conf('access.conf','loncapa.conf');
+my %perlvar=%{$perlvarref};
+undef $perlvarref; # remove since sensitive and not needed
+delete $perlvar{'lonReceipt'}; # remove since sensitive and not needed
+delete $perlvar{'lonSqlAccess'}; # remove since sensitive and not needed
 
 $testhost=$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
 $testhost=~s/\W//g;