On Oct 20, 8:52 am, jhaagmans <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course not, but it will give a 404 if there's nothing there, for
> example? That's what matters
>
> What would be the response if you check for an inactive domain? Is
> that simply no response at all? Because that could also mean it times
> out, no? I know it's not 100% safe, the user also has some
> responsibility. Even a typo that resolves could validate, I have some
> other ideas for that, but I'd like to take out the 404s, 500s and what
> not.
>
If a domain doesn't resolve at all you should get an error to that
effect. After that, all depends on your definition of inactive and
valid. For example is a 'you have successfully installed apache' page
valid ? Is a domain parking page valid ?
Fred
> Thanks again.
>
> On 19 okt, 22:39, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Oct 19, 7:35 pm, jhaagmans <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm not behind it right now, but would the following work?
>
> > > require 'net/http'
>
> > > url = URI.parse(params[:url])
> > > http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
> > > response = http.send_request('GET', '/')
> > > puts response.body
>
> > well it would check you can make a request to that domain (assuming no
> > dns tomfoolery), obviously doesn't check if there is any thing valid
> > at that url
>
> > Fred
>
> > > Thank you.
>
> > > On 19 okt, 20:18, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Oct 19, 6:59 pm, jhaagmans <[email protected]> wrote:> Hi,
>
> > > > > For an app I need users to put in the domain name their website is
> > > > > hosted on. It's important that this domain works, so I'd like my app
> > > > > to check this. I'd like to be able to process the response. If it
> > > > > returns a 404 error or maybe even a 500 error I'd like it to have the
> > > > > method return true, but also a message saying there's something the
> > > > > user needs to look into at their end. If the domain is unavailable (so
> > > > > there is no record in the zonefile) I'd like the method to return
> > > > > false and return an error message saying the domain is invalid. Of
> > > > > course, if it passes with a 200 message, I'd like it to return true
> > > > > and a success message.
>
> > > > > Is this possible and how?
>
> > > > Well you could use the ruby name resolving classes or make an http
> > > > request with Net::HTTP (although beware of DNS servers that lie when
> > > > the domain doesn't exist)
>
> > > > Fred
>
> > > > > Thank you very much!
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