I'm looking for ideas because I'm not sure how to go about this. I'm
setting up some pages that are going to have links to external sites. I
know how bad it looks to have broken links so I'd like to check the links
on a schedule and remove any links that are broken. I'll still get some
broken inks but it's better than using up my server resources checking
links every time a page loads. At any rate, I'm not sure quite how to check
the links in the way I'd like to. I'm considered trying
<CFHTTP method="get" ... throwonerror="yes">
but I'm not sure that it will do what I want it to do. In some cases I want
to make sure that the server is responding (because I don't have a specific
file to point to) and in some cases I want to make sure there isn't a 404
error (because I do have a specific file to point to). This would probably
work for a 404 error but frankly, I didn't understand the section of the
CFML Language Reference that talked about whether a filename is required
for CFHTTP. To be honest, I don't even want to get the file-- I just want
to make sure it is available. I don't have access to these servers so I
can't put a dummy file on the server to get to make sure the server is
responding.
Is there a better way to do this that I'm missing? Ideas?
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