Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-21 Thread Mitch Claborn
2015-07-17 18:48 GMT+03:00 Mitch Claborn mitch...@claborn.net: I spent some time yesterday digging through code without much luck. Today I'm going to experiment with this: getting a Request Dispatcher for the URL from the ServletContext, creating a dummy ServerRequest and ServerResponse object

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-21 Thread Konstantin Kolinko
2015-07-17 18:48 GMT+03:00 Mitch Claborn mitch...@claborn.net: I spent some time yesterday digging through code without much luck. Today I'm going to experiment with this: getting a Request Dispatcher for the URL from the ServletContext, creating a dummy ServerRequest and ServerResponse

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-20 Thread Mitch Claborn
On 07/17/2015 10:48 AM, Mitch Claborn wrote: On 07/16/2015 02:19 PM, chris derham wrote: I already have a custom error page. When I detect that a URL returned by google would return a 404, I exclude it from the search results so that the user never sees it. Mitch Mitch, Ok I see now what

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mitch, On 7/20/15 2:09 PM, Mitch Claborn wrote: On 07/17/2015 10:48 AM, Mitch Claborn wrote: On 07/16/2015 02:19 PM, chris derham wrote: I already have a custom error page. When I detect that a URL returned by google would return a 404, I

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-17 Thread Mitch Claborn
On 07/16/2015 02:19 PM, chris derham wrote: I already have a custom error page. When I detect that a URL returned by google would return a 404, I exclude it from the search results so that the user never sees it. Mitch Mitch, Ok I see now what you mean. Sorry your original email was quite

Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-16 Thread Mitch Claborn
Short question: How can I, from within code running under Tomcat, determine if a given URL request to that tomcat instance would result in a 404 or not, without calling back to the Tomcat using an HTTP HEAD or GET? Background: We use google custom search by calling the google server and then

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-16 Thread Mitch Claborn
On 07/16/2015 01:04 PM, chris derham wrote: Short question: How can I, from within code running under Tomcat, determine if a given URL request to that tomcat instance would result in a 404 or not, without calling back to the Tomcat using an HTTP HEAD or GET? Background: We use google custom

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-16 Thread chris derham
I already have a custom error page. When I detect that a URL returned by google would return a 404, I exclude it from the search results so that the user never sees it. Mitch Mitch, Ok I see now what you mean. Sorry your original email was quite clear. Hmm interesting challenge. Big

Re: Check if a URL exists programatically

2015-07-16 Thread chris derham
Short question: How can I, from within code running under Tomcat, determine if a given URL request to that tomcat instance would result in a 404 or not, without calling back to the Tomcat using an HTTP HEAD or GET? Background: We use google custom search by calling the google server and then