Does -e work with IP addresses?

[AndyGroom]

I'm not really a perl programmer so forgive my ignorance!

I wrote this code, and it works:

if (-e "../$logid/$celebid$imageDIMS$trans" . ".jpg")

I then changed it to this:

if (-e "$imageserver/$logid/$celebid$imageDIMS$trans" . ".jpg")

where $imageserver is one of 3 servers specified by IP address, eg:

$imageserver = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://111.222.333.444";[/URL]

I'm guessing it doesn't work because -e only works with local files and can't look onto a different server?

Is there a solution so that I can do what I want to do?

- Andy
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[ishnid]

Short answer: no, "-e" won't work for URLs.

You could use the "head" function of the LWP::Simple module to see if it's possible to fetch a file over HTTP.