I never did see this message appear on the list. Resending it in case I screwed up the initial posting.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Hutchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 11, 2006 4:31 PM Subject: io:request and output=false To: taglibs-user@jakarta.apache.org This has probably been answered before, so I apologize in advance. I'm trying to 'ping' a URL to see if the url is 'alive'. I'm using <io:request> inside a <c:catch>. This seems to work ok if output=true (an exception occurs whe the site is down), but my desired behavior (output=false) doesn't throw an exception when the http response returns a 404 or 503 or some other non-successful status. Any thoughts? I'm looking for another JSTL solution, or I might modify the URLTag code to behave the way I want (and I think most users would expect: which is the same behavior as output=true would behave). Thanks.
