On Oct 19, 6:59 pm, jhaagmans <jaap.haagm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For an app I need users to put in the domain name their website is
> hosted on. It's important that this domain works, so I'd like my app
> to check this. I'd like to be able to process the response. If it
> returns a 404 error or maybe even a 500 error I'd like it to have the
> method return true, but also a message saying there's something the
> user needs to look into at their end. If the domain is unavailable (so
> there is no record in the zonefile) I'd like the method to return
> false and return an error message saying the domain is invalid. Of
> course, if it passes with a 200 message, I'd like it to return true
> and a success message.
>
> Is this possible and how?
>
Well you could use the ruby name resolving classes or make an http
request with Net::HTTP (although beware of DNS servers that lie when
the domain doesn't exist)
Fred
> Thank you very much!
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