util::link_responding_p (public)

 util::link_responding_p [ -url url ] \
    [ -list_of_bad_codes list_of_bad_codes ]

Defined in packages/acs-tcl/tcl/http-client-procs.tcl

Switches:

-url (optional)

-list_of_bad_codes (optional, defaults to "404")

Returns:

1 if the URL is responding (generally we think that anything other than 404 (not found) is okay).

See Also:

• util::get_http_status

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Source code:

    if { [catch { set status [util::get_http_status -url $url] } errmsg] } {
        # got an error; definitely not valid
        return 0
    } else {
        # we got the page but it might have been a 404 or something
        if { $status in $list_of_bad_codes } {
            return 0
        } else {
            return 1
        }
    }

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