From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T18:19:45+09:00
Subject: Re: How to check if a webpage exists

From: Davide Benini [mailto:nutsmuggler@hotmail.com] 
# I work on Mac Os X Leopard. Ruby works allright, I have also 
# a number of 
# rails websites running locally, no problems so far.
# Could you help me with the proper "script" sintax; I am sure the 
# rationale beyond the mechanism is correct, but I ultimately need to 
# integrate this script in a rails application, so I need to have it 
# woking in a common .rb file. As I said, tried this

try

# require 'open-uri'
#  begin
#    open "www.does.not.exist.sdadasdas.com", :proxy=>true

replace the above line with

    puts open("www.does.not.exist.sdadasdas.com",:proxy=>true).read

post the output again

#    p "i'm ok"   #<-- ok codes here
#  rescue => e
#   p "sorry can't do"
#   p "error is: #{e}"
# end