Donal, Sorry, I had a cut/paste error in part of what I said in my earlier reply... near the bottom I show extraneous contents of 'page from an earlier read of another URL. Some of what I said near the end is therefore erroneous, but I think you get the jist of using 'exists? ok ? hope so... sorry. Russ ------ erroneously cut/pasted part and remarks pertaining to it ------- >>> print page >Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:59:05 GMT >Server: Apache/1.2.4 >Location: http://www.PortONE.com/portone/error.html >Connection: close >Content-Type: text/html > >Again, a test on "either page" doesn't do what you desire; but 'exists? does. > >>> either page [print "true"] [print "false"] >true --------------------------------------------------------------------------
