Re: [Watin-users] Getting HTTP response codes on navigation actions

[Alan W. <aw...@dc...>]

You know I'm not sure if that's possible (I'm not watin expert) but I
would think you could check the page for specific text to see if it
failed or not.

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You could either...

A)      After calling the URL look for text in the page which shows up
on success (ie something like "welcome to mysite.com!")

*	Pros: it will catch more than 404 errors, any error which makes
the page request fail will be caught by this technique.

B)      After calling the URL look for text in the page which shows up
on failure (ie something like "the server was unable to...")

*	Pros: if you know the error message format that the server sends
you can figure out what exactly is going wrong
*	Cons: you have to know what the server will send in various
error situations

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It seems to me that looking for text on success is the way to go but
that's just what I've gathered, might not be true :P

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From: wat...@li...
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Chamberlain
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 5:38 PM
To: wat...@li...
Subject: [Watin-users] Getting HTTP response codes on navigation actions

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Hi all,

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Does anyone know if it possible (with WATIN) to extract the HTTP
response code from the response to a  navigation call like:
IE.GoTo("www.someurl.com") ?

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We want to crawl through a list of URLs regularly and ensure that there
are no 404 or similar responses and that redirects happen where they
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I understand that this info is more transport related and above the
HTMLdocument itself, but I thought I'd take a punt and see if there is a
way to get back up there.  If not, can anyone suggest an alternative?
I'm tempted to use VS2005 web tests as they have the HTTP response codes
available.

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Thanks

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Pierzapin

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