From: John <nojgoalbyspam@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T02:46:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32OLE:  Is getting MSIE HTTP status possible?

"Dossy" <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote in message
news:20020716172105.GJ2284@panoptic.com...
> 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
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara                       mail: dossy@panoptic.com
> Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
>   "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>     folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
>
>

I think its kinda strange to use Ruby to do this, but to each his own.

For further questions regarding IE/automation I would recommend going to an
IE/vbcript newsgroup.

That said, the following vbscript code does what you want:

  set oHTTP = CreateObject ("msxml2.XMLHTTP")

  oHTTP.open "GET", "http://www.yahoo.com/", false
  oHTTP.send sRequest

  Wscript.echo "Status = " & oHTTP.status
  Rem Wscript.echo oHTTP.responseText

It uses the msxml component.  I did not have a sample for how to do this
with the internet explorer control per se.  That information, if it exists,
will be available by asking in an IE programming newsgroup.

HTH John.