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Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:02 PM
Subject: [REBOL] exists?
>
> when applied to a URL it returns true if it can read it, false
> otherwise. this is an outstanding feature that shows the power of rebol,
> with an unified model cross the net. but ...
>
> i suggest either some refinement or an excpetion raised when the url may
> exist but there is no permission to access it (e.g password protected) or
> when the url is automatically forwarded to another one (e.g obsolete url
> with auot-redirection) .
If something is not accessible for you, it simply doesn't exist, or not?
-pekr-
>
> what do you think ?
>
> ben
