fetch script?

I have a challenging question,
I have a cache server that all port 80 customer traffic routes to via a nat rule redirecting port 80 to my cache server, and once in a great while the cache server will stop passing traffic but its still ping-able so netwatch doesnt work to tell if it is down. what Im wondering is if there is a way to use fetch to grab a small file hosted on the net or near my edge router that will disable the nat rule if it returns a error 404 not found message when it tries to fetch.



Thank You!

Josh