I think you can check if a file exists with CFFTP
HTH
Dick
At 1:43 PM +1000 10/15/00, Rob Keniger wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a client who has several links to largish (up to 100MB) downloads
>which are hosted on other people's servers. He wants my CF app to
>automatically check all these URLs to ensure they are still valid (i.e. not
>giving 404's).
>
>I thought about using CFHTTP but from what I know of it you would have to
>download the entire linked file before you could determine whether or not
>the link was valid. If the client has, say, several hundred downloads at
>10-100MB apiece then this is obviously not feasible in terms of time, disk
>space and bandwidth. Is there any way to use CF to do this? If CFHTTP won't
>do the job, is there an alternative?
>
>Thanks for any input.
>
>--
>
>Rob Keniger
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