check if URL is valid or not possible ?

[Former Member]

hi,

is it somehow possible via function module or class/method to check if a given URL is valid ?

Problem is:

in MSS i display photos of employees from intranet-server of customer:

for example:http://www.intranetserver.com/Employees/12345678.jpg -> 12345678 stands for the personnell number.

Some employees don't have a photo, so the url can't be found as there is no photo on intranet-server. When put the URL into browser i get error 404 (page not found) back.

but  how can i check if this URL is valid inside abap-coding ? i have to do some other coding when  url does not exist, and i need this before.

br Martin

[larshp]

try using cl_http_client, something like the following ABAP code should do the trick,

DATA: li_client TYPE REF TO if_http_client.

DATA: lv_code TYPE i.

cl_http_client=>create_by_url(

  EXPORTING

    url    = 'http://www.intranetserver.com/Employees/12345678.jpg'

  IMPORTING

    client = li_client ).

li_client->send( ).

li_client->receive( ).

li_client->response->get_status(

      IMPORTING

        code   = lv_code ).