I know some browsers send in HTTP HEAD command before they send HTTP GET. I am sure your client program can do the same. ================ Yanbin Ma Competitrack Inc. 718-482-4284 -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Carville [mailto:stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:01 PM To: Apache Users Subject: [users@httpd] POSTing to non-executable file Is there a good way for a client program to check for the existance of a file on a remote server before attempting a download? Kind of an http version of the ls command. We have a software program that checks for the existance of a file by doing an empty POST to the URL. This works with apache 2.0.52 but fails on 1.3.20 with an error 405: The requested method POST is not allowed for the URL /pdf/temp/16557996.pdf. Whatever technique I use has to work on both 1.3 and 2.0 so I'd like to know if there is a better way. -- Stephen Carville --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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