test existence of a file on different server using asp??

[dnk]

is there a way to check for the existence of a file on a remote server? sort of like fso FileExists, but for which you'd specify a full url to a file on another machine?

thanks!

 

[danielhai]

tricky, you'd have to use an HTTP Component that returns whether a file exists or not. But even that might not work because some web servers return 404, so you'd have to parse and see if the returned page contains 404.

for HTTP components try Mabry or Software Artisans.