Hi.

On 06/08/2018 00:50, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>On 08/05/2018 04:47 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>On 08/05/2018 04:20 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>On 08/05/2018 03:44 PM, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>>>>On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Is there a way to ask curl to tell me is a url exists without
>>>>>downloading it if it does?
>>>>
>>>>  curl -f http://example.com/non-exists
>>>>
>>>
>>>$ curl -f http://example.com/non-exists
>>>curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
>>>
>>>Perfect.  Just look for the 404
>>>
>>>Thank you!
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Adding --head to it keep it from downloading if
>>the file exists
>>
>>$ curl --fail --head http://example.com/non-exists
>>curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
>>
>>
>>$ curl --fail --head http://gbis.com
>>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>>Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:46:25 GMT
>>Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Fedora)
>>X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
>>Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=k8uiqbdqk4cq299r6vscdgpr41; path=/
>>Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
>>Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0,
>>pre-check=0
>>Pragma: no-cache
>>Connection: close
>>Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>
>Since I am calling this from a Perl 6 module, $? is
>zero for exists and not zero for fail. So,
>
> if $RtnCode = 0 { return 1; } else { return 0; }
>
>0 is false and 1 is true in Perl 6

I would try to add --silent

aleks_at_aleks-PC ~
$ curl --silent --fail --head -o /dev/null http://gbis.com/ll ; echo $?
22

aleks_at_aleks-PC ~
$ curl --silent --fail --head -o /dev/null http://gbis.com/ ; echo $?
0

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Received on 2018-08-06