Can I test to see if a remote url file exists?

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December 14, 2010
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I need to check to see if an mp3 file exists on a remote server. Can someone help me with this code?

thanks,

Richie

Database access

이 주제는 답변이 닫혔습니다.

최고의 답변: ilssac

It is not going to return a yes or no. It is going to return a structure. YOu then examin that structure to determine if it was a yes or no.

As BKBK showed

<cfhttp method="head" url="http://www.myurl.com/mymp3.mp3">
...
<cfdump var="#cfhttp#">

You would then be looking for a "200 OK" status. 200 OK is the HTTP status that the URL was found and returned what was requested.

<cfhttp...> documentation.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Tags_g-h_09.html

S

sxijam

Participant

hehehe

Owainnorth

Inspiring

Well, good and thorough work from many people there, from which I think we can conclude:

"Don't use functions for things they weren't intended"

Personally I'd be sticking to the cfhttp suggested in the first post. Couldn't agree more with Adam though, that the inappropriately named "livedocs" should possibly be renamed as Adobe MoribundDocs. Very frustrating not having up-to-date documentation when it's needed.

BKBK

Community Expert

Owainnorth wrote:
Well, good and thorough work from many people there, from which I think we can conclude:
"Don't use functions for things they weren't intended"
Personally I'd be sticking to the cfhttp suggested in the first post.

I should add a reminder here that I was merely making an experimental suggestion to test ColdFusion's capability. It's achieved one result: we've narrowed it down to CF9.0.1!

Using cfhttp is naturally the most appropriate way to do it presently. However, it would be neat to officially have fileExists(arg:URL) in CF9.0.1 onwards.

BKBK

Community Expert

<cfhttp method="head" url="url_of_the_mp3_file">