From: Tim Hunter <rmagick@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T02:44:38+09:00
Subject: Re: check for active web pages with open-uri

Chuck Dawit wrote:
> I'm using openuri module to open web pages. If the pages doesn't exist I
> get an error:
> in `initialize': getaddrinfo: no address associated with hostname.
> (SocketError)
> 
> then I get a whole bunch of other stuff. Is there a parameter to use so
> that open() returns a true or false value if the page exists or not?
> Basically I'm looking through a list of web addresses and I want to
> store the active pages and throw away the non active pages. So if the
> page doesn't exist I want to be able to move on in the script.

Why not use rescue to catch the SocketError?
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