Reputation: 236

Check if URL is valid or exists in java

I'm writing a Java program which hits a list of urls and needs to first know if the url exists. I don't know how to go about this and cant find the java code to use.

The URL is like this:

http: //ip:port/URI?Attribute=x&attribute2=y

These are URLs on our internal network that would return an XML if valid.

Can anyone suggest some code?

Upvotes: 5

Answers (5)

Kumar Vivek Mitra

Reputation: 33544

package com.my;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class StrTest {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    try {
        URL url = new URL("http://www.yaoo.coi");
        InputStream i = null;

        try {
            i = url.openStream();
        } catch (UnknownHostException ex) {
            System.out.println("THIS URL IS NOT VALID");
        }

        if (i != null) {
            System.out.println("Its working");
        }

    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
           }
      }
  }

output : THIS URL IS NOT VALID

Upvotes: 3

sealz

Reputation: 5408

You could just use httpURLConnection. If it is not valid you won't get anything back.

    HttpURLConnection connection = null;
try{         
    URL myurl = new URL("http://www.myURL.com");        
    connection = (HttpURLConnection) myurl.openConnection(); 
    //Set request to header to reduce load as Subirkumarsao said.       
    connection.setRequestMethod("HEAD");         
    int code = connection.getResponseCode();        
    System.out.println("" + code); 
} catch {
//Handle invalid URL
}

Or you could ping it like you would from CMD and record the response.

String myurl = "google.com"
String ping = "ping " + myurl 

try {
    Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
    Process p = r.exec(ping);
    r.exec(ping);    
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
    String inLine;
    BufferedWriter write = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("C:\\myfile.txt"));

    while ((inLine = in.readLine()) != null) {             
            write.write(inLine);   
            write.newLine();
        }
            write.flush();
            write.close();
            in.close();              
     } catch (Exception ex) {
       //Code here for what you want to do with invalid URLs
     } 
}

Upvotes: 11