Jennifer,
I'm finishing up a CFX tag that will do what you need. Right now what you
can do is write a script that will parse through your templates extracting
out http, ftp, or mailto: tags. You can dump these into a table then as a
scheduled task you could cfx_http to the address to get the response code
from the server, then not show the link if it returns anything other than
200 and send you an email to let you know.
Jeff Sarsoun
-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: remote server response
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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