From: Chuck Dawit <chuckdawit@...>
Date: 2007-09-19T05:45:39+09:00
Subject: Re: check for active web pages with open-uri

Tim Hunter wrote:
> 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?

If I use rescue will the script return back to normal flow without 
exiting? I don't want the script to exit.
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