Checking a URL is valid

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  jlandeen Member Posts: 524

  2011-03-09

  There are 2 ways I can think to do this off the top of my head.
  
  1) Use the IWebBrowserApp COM control (or some other control like it) to retrieve the site and check the returned content for 404 error code.
  See: http://www.codeguru.com/Csharp/Csharp/cs_webservices/article.php/c5481
  
  2) If you are using NAV 2009 R2 then you should be able to call .NET assemblies and managed C# or VB.Net code. There are a few posts of how to do this in C# and see the links below. This should be pretty easy to code & deploy.
  
  Example 1: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/924679/c-how-can-i-check-if-a-url-exists-is-valid
  Example 2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3826370/how-to-validate-a-url-in-c-error-404

  Jeff Landeen - Sr. Consultant
  Epimatic Corp.
  http://www.epimatic.com

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  AntHillMob Member Posts: 79

  2011-03-25

  Thanks for the response (and sorry for the delay coming back);
  
  In case anyone else ever wants to do this:
  

  IF ISCLEAR(XMLHTTP) THEN
    CREATE(XMLHTTP);
  XMLHTTP.open('HEAD', URL, FALSE);
  XMLHTTP.send;
  IF XMLHTTP.status <> 200 THEN ERROR('');
  

  
  Where XMLHTTP = 'Microsoft XML, v6.0'.XMLHTTP60

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