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Re: Test for valid URL?
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Re: Test for valid URL?


  • Subject: Re: Test for valid URL?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:42:44 -0400

"do shell script" throws an error if the command exits with nonzero
status, so curl must not be doing that.  Or else there's a try block
around the do shell call...

On Thursday, September 16, 2010, Doug McNutt <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 12:46 -0500 9/16/10, Michael Grant wrote:
>>Neither
>>open location "some random string"
>>nor
>>do shell script "curl some random string"
>>
>>actually returns an error on my system (the first one returns nothing,
>>the second returns an empty string), and they both just fail silently
>>
>>
> curl returns its error messages to  STDERR and returns a status to the shell with 0 (zero) being OK.
>
> I'm sure there is a way to persuade do shell script to show that stuff. Something like:
>
> set ercode = do shell script  "curl some random string  2>1"
>
> But it's likely that curl would get a 401 error code from a site and be perfectly happy with it. Would that be a "valid" URL? Curl also returns the content of a valid URL in STDOUT unless you redirect it to using -c /dev/null.
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References: 
 >Test for valid URL? (From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Test for valid URL? (From: Steve Thompson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Test for valid URL? (From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>)

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