check if a url is valid

[robertaborg]

Hi,

I m getting results from a search engine. I am doing some processing on these results and I need to check if the results(i.e the urls are valid for eg that the website is still there etc).

Do you know of any thing which I can use in javascript to do so.

10x

 

[feherke]

Hi

If the URLs ar poitning to the same domain, then use [tt]XMLHttpRequest[/tt] to request the page then check the [tt]status[/tt] code. If not, better do it on server side.


Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Diancecht]

What's wrong with http request to other domains?

Server-side avaliability doesn't always mean client-side avaliability ...

Cheers,
Dian

 

[feherke]

Hi

What's wrong with http request to other domains?

Well, let us see where I can connect from this thread's page :

[blue]>>> (new XMLHttpRequest()).open('GET','[URL unfurl="true"]http://tek-tips.com/')[/URL][/blue]
[blue]>>> (new XMLHttpRequest()).open('GET','[URL unfurl="true"]http://google.com/')[/URL][/blue]
[COLOR=white red] x [/color] [green][b][Exception... "Access to restricted URI denied" code: "1012" nsresult: "0x805303f4 (NS_ERROR_DOM_BAD_URI)" location: "[URL unfurl="true"]http://tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1548404&page=1[/URL] Line: 65"][/b][/green]

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[Diancecht]

My bad, feherke is very rigth, I was thinking locally

Cheers,
Dian