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read external textfile - 2/14/2007 8:04:27 PM

Thuurke

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Hello,

I want to read an textfile from an external website.
After looking around on the internet I found an sort of solution with XMLHTTP.

I use

Set xml = Server.Createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
xml.open "GET", http://www.remotesite.com/test.txt, False
xml.send

to open the file.

This works fine, but when the file doesn't exist my script fails. I haven't found an solution to first check if the file exists. Does somebody know how I can do this?

Greeting,

Arthur

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RE: read external textfile - 2/15/2007 2:40:08 AM

ebgreen

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Try this:

Set xml = Server.Createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
On Error Resume Next
xml.open "GET", http://www.remotesite.com/test.txt, False
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
'Could not open the file....do something here
Else
xml.send
End If
On Error Goto 0

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