Check HTTP Status of an external URL

Targets Web
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Hello

I’m looking for a way to call a certain URL by my Xojo Webapp to check the HTTP Status Code of the called URL. Is there a possibility?

Thanks for help
Cheers Mike

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You can use an HTTPSocket to get the URL. Then check the HTTPStatusCode of that socket. It will return an integer of the status code.

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Thanks for your help, Scott! I need to call a https:// Website, so could you please give me some more help to use the HTTPSecureSocket? I studied the language reference and don’t know the code to create the HTTPSecureSocket in my Webapp and the right syntax to call the SSL-URL. Can you give me some code?

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just make a new HTTPSecureSocket object, call get method with URL and put some code in events, so you know when you get event if things worked or not.

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As a test, I placed this code in a WebButton. When clicked, it would pop up a MsgBox with the status code.

dim mySocket as new HTTPSecureSocket dim s as string = mySocket.get("https://www.apple.com",0) MsgBox str(mySocket.HTTPStatusCode)

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Technically you would better just do a HEAD request, so you don’t transfer all the content, just the status.
You can do so with CURL Plugin for example with OptionHeader=true.

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Thank you all for your help!

Have a nice day, Mike

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