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user1970090
user1970090

Reputation: 235

VB.NET how to check if a webpage exists

Is it possible to check if a webpage exists or not in vb.net application ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 14291

Answers (4)

9894
9894

Reputation: 21

 Private Function RemoteFileExists(ByVal url As String) As Boolean
    Try
        Dim request As HttpWebRequest = TryCast(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest)
        request.Method = "HEAD"
        Dim response As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(request.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
        response.Close()
        Return (response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK)
    Catch
        Return False
    End Try
End Function

Upvotes: 1

craisin
craisin

Reputation: 61

You do not need an "If" statement to test for the non-existence. Simply plce the code to handle that eventuality immediately after the "catch" statement. That code will only run if an error occurrs in the search ("WebRequest"). The error is when the page is not found.

Upvotes: 0

the_lotus
the_lotus

Reputation: 12748

You can find out by requesting the webpage in question and looking if there's an error message.

    Dim req As System.Net.WebRequest
    Dim res As System.Net.WebResponse

    req = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com/werwerfsdfsdf")

    Try
        res = req.GetResponse()
    Catch e As WebException
        ' URL doesn't exists
    End Try

Upvotes: 1

Avitus
Avitus

Reputation: 15978

You can do this to get the text of a web page.

string strUrl = "http://forum.codecall.net/external.php?type=RSS2";


WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(strUrl);

WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

string data = new System.IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

Upvotes: 0

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