Apologies I entered some dummy values and forgot to append http:// to the URL.
Not sure about the unable to connect to remote server. I receive a 200 or OK response regrdless of the validity of the URL On 15 Dec, 14:41, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
