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How can I determine if a link points to a valid URL?

Feb 17th, 2001 07:02
Martin Honnen, Randy Simon,

With client side JavaScript there is no possibility to check whether a 
link points to a valid url or not unless it is an imgage you want to 
check:
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1799/fid/122/lang/
Otherwise you would need to call into Java in NN4 or use an Actixe X 
for IE5 to check a link and even then you could only check links on the 
same server the script is loaded from unless your java code is 
trusted/signed. See
  http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/7747/fid/189
for an attempt at a solution.