validate a link

[Guoqi Zheng]

How can I check in real time whether a link is valide or not?

I am thinking to use system.net.webclient to connect directly to the web
server. However, that will get all the content of that webpage which may
takes some time. Is there a way to only get the header info of that webpage
which is enought to determine whether a page exists or not?

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Kind regards

Guoqi Zheng
guoqi AT meetholland dot com
Http://www.meetholland.com

 

[bruce barker]

do a HEAD request rather than a GET.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Guoqi Zheng]

that is what I want, but how?

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Kind regards

Guoqi Zheng
guoqi AT meetholland dot com
Http://www.meetholland.com