in reply to Re: Checking for an existing URL
in thread Checking for an existing URL
I thing you should try HEAD instad of GET. If all you want to know is whether the URL is fine, why would you download the whole document? :-)Because some servers have been shown to return an error for HEAD, but a real document for GET. So you have to do both. Try HEAD first, but if it fails, retry with GET.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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