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Does a URL exist?
HTML Web Page Data Handling example from a Well House Consultants training course
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This example references the following resources:
http://www.wellho.net/net/new.html
http://www.wellho.net/
http://www.wellho.net/

Source code: urlex.html Module: H110
<html><head><title>Does a URL exist?</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white"><table width="600"><tr><td>
<h1>Does a particular URL exist?</h1>
A difficult question and one there isn't a general answer to - but
you can check whether an http:// URL is readable which is often the
question that's being asked. With a URL such as a mailto:, the only
way to check whether it exists is to send an email to it and see if
you get an answer back from the address owner.   You also need to
take care with testing like this to ensure that the user can't
enter local file URLs on your server and use it to check the
existence (or otherwise) of files / directories .... <br /><br />
Checking URL <b>http://www.wellho.net/net/new.html</b><br />This URL s readable<br />
<hr />
Please enter a URL you would like to validate (existence check):
<form>The URL: <input name="url" /> and <input type="submit" /></form>
<br /><i>Note - in order to save myself the need to monitor the use of this script, I
have only loaded it here it its tested (HTML) form and the form just above will
not work.   You are welcome AT YOUR OWN RISK to test the code that's presented
below on your own server. Unless you are very sure of what you are doing, I advise
you NOT to put this script onto a live Internet server</i>
<hr />
Copyright <a href="http://www.wellho.net/">Well House Consultants</a>
2005<br /><br />
<b>Source code of this example:</b><br /><br />
<code><font color="#000000">
<font color="#0000BB">&lt;?php<br /><br /></font><font color="#007700">if (</font><font color="#0000BB">$_REQUEST</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">url</font><font color="#007700">] != </font><font color="#DD0000">""</font><font color="#007700">) {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (! </font><font color="#0000BB">ereg</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"^https?://"</font><font color="#007700">,</font><font color="#0000BB">$_REQUEST</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">url</font><font color="#007700">])) {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$status </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"This demo requires a fully qualified http:// URL"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} else {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&n
bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if (@</font><font color="#0000BB">fopen</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$_REQUEST</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">url</font><font color="#007700">],</font><font color="#DD0000">"r"</font><font color="#007700">)) {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$status </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"This URL s readable"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} else {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$status </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"This URL is not readable"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;}<br />} else {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#0000BB">0<
/font><font color="#007700">;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font><font color="#0000BB">$status </font><font color="#007700">= </font><font color="#DD0000">"no URL entered (yet)"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br /><br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?&gt;<br /></font>&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Does a URL exist?&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;<br />&lt;body bgcolor="white"&gt;&lt;table width="600"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;<br />&lt;h1&gt;Does a particular URL exist?&lt;/h1&gt;<br />A difficult question and one there isn't a general answer to - but<br />you can check whether an http:// URL is readable which is often the<br />question that's being asked. With a URL such as a mailto:, the only<br />way to check whether it exists is to send an email to it and see if<br />you get an answer back from the address owner.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;You also need to <br />take care with testing like this to ensure that the user can't<br />enter local file URLs on your server and use it to check the<br />existence (or ot
herwise) of files / directories .... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><font color="#0000BB">&lt;?php<br /></font><font color="#007700">if (</font><font color="#0000BB">$result </font><font color="#007700">!= </font><font color="#0000BB">0</font><font color="#007700">) {<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;print </font><font color="#DD0000">"Checking URL &lt;b&gt;"</font><font color="#007700">.</font><font color="#0000BB">htmlspecialchars</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$_REQUEST</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">url</font><font color="#007700">]).</font><font color="#DD0000">"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"</font><font color="#007700">;<br />}<br />print </font><font color="#DD0000">"$status"</font><font color="#007700">;<br /></font><font color="#0000BB">?&gt;<br /></font>&lt;br /&gt;<br />&lt;hr /&gt;<br />Please enter a URL you would like to validate (existence check):<br />&lt;form&gt;The URL: &lt;input name="url" /&gt; and &lt;input type="submit" /&gt;&lt;/form&gt;<br />&lt;hr
/&gt;<br />Copyright &lt;a href="http://www.wellho.net/"&gt;Well House Consultants&lt;/a&gt;<br /><font color="#0000BB">&lt;?= date</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#DD0000">"Y"</font><font color="#007700">) </font><font color="#0000BB">?&gt;</font>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br />&lt;b&gt;Source code of this example:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;<br /><font color="#0000BB">&lt;?= highlight_file</font><font color="#007700">(</font><font color="#0000BB">$_SERVER</font><font color="#007700">[</font><font color="#0000BB">SCRIPT_FILENAME</font><font color="#007700">],</font><font color="#0000BB">1</font><font color="#007700">) </font><font color="#0000BB">?&gt;<br /></font>&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;<br />&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /></font>
</code></td></tr></table>
</body></html>

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