Bad image??

[Zas]

Is there a perl function to check to see if the image url that the user supplied is a valid one, and actually works?

Happieness is like peeing your pants.
Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.

 

[missbarbell]

From Sean Burke:

use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get $url;
die "Couldn't get $url" unless defined $content;

You could delve deeper into LWP with

use LWP;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $response = $browser->get( $url );
die "Can't get $url -- ", $response->status_line
unless $response->is_success;

You get the idea

Barbie
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

http://birmingham.pm.org

 

[Zas]

thank you...

Happieness is like peeing your pants.
Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.