I'm not seeing that behaviour. If I run your code, I get an error due to the URI being malformed.
If I use a valid, but non-existent URI, I get the error "Unable to connect to the remote server". On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:59 AM, hanks2000 <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All > > I'm using the following code to validate and verify a URL exists. The > problem I'm getting is a status code 200 (OK) is always returned, > regardless of the entered URL. Does anybody have any ideas why? I > have a feeling its something to do with the proxy I need to use but > cannot see why this would result in 200 status code being returned > > Thank You in advance > > Hanks > > wProxy = New WebProxy(strProxy) > wProxy.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential > (strUser, strPassword, strDomain) > > httpReq = CType(WebRequest.Create > ("wontwork6763433446778"), HttpWebRequest) > httpReq.Proxy = CType(wProxy, IWebProxy) > > httpResp = CType(httpReq.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) > > If httpResp.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK Then > Return True > Else > Return False > End If >
