[AccessD] Re: Test Voracity of URLS

Actually, it can be anything that you define for the site.
Index is common, but so is Default.  And, the extension is
the same way; htm, html, aspx, asp, etc.

When you set the starting page for a web site, it can be
anything and have any extension.

At 08:29 AM 11/18/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:42:06 +0100
>From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk>
>Subject: RE: Svar: [AccessD] A2003:Test Voracity of URLS
>To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
>Message-ID: <s19c7c97.026 at cactus.dk>
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>
>Hi Darren
>
>Not quite sure what you are doing. It will return one result only ...
>index.htm is chosen as any site has this page. By second thought,
>index.html is possible too, but I don't know (do we have a web guru
>present?) - perhaps the function should be expanded to check for any of
>these two files?
>
>/gustav
>
> >>> d.dick at uws.edu.au 18-11-2004 01:58:27 >>>
>
>Hi Gustav
>Many thanks
>I'm not sure how to use the code though :-(( I get odd results
>
>When I put isUrl ("http://www.ibm.com") behind a button on a form
>and put debug.print IsURL at the end of Public Function IsURL
>I get "true"
>If I put msgbox IsYrl at the end of Public Function IsURL
>I get false
>??
>Dunno what it all means
>
>http://www.ibm.com is a valid and live website
>How do it know if there will be an index.htm file at the other end?
>And how come I get differeing results with MSGBOX and Debug.print?
>
>Obviously doing something wrong
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>Darren