From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T02:21:07+09:00
Subject: Win32OLE:  Is getting MSIE HTTP status possible?

Hi,

I'm using Ruby, Win32OLE, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Test::Unit
to automate web testing (hopefully to eliminate any need for our team
to use WinRunner + WebTest for most of our testing).

Is there any way to get the HTTP status code from IE through COM?
As in, to tell if the page displayed was HTTP status 200 OK vs.
404 Not Found or 500 Server Error, etc.?

Parsing the displayed page works in the specific case, but not in
the general case -- where we may not be able to control the 404
display, or the 404 page is a javascript or meta-refresh redirect
to another page.  I still need to know that the original URL that
was navigated to returned HTTP status 404 from the webserver.

I think I'm out of luck here, but I figured I'd ask the gurus
first, before giving up hope.

-- Dossy

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