Posted by Eric on 05/19/06 19:07

Neredbojias <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> wrote:

> To further the education of mankind, Eric <nospam@email.com> vouchsafed:
>
>> Is it possible to check for existence of a file from a web page using
>> javascript? I am trying to come up with a routine that i can call from
>> the rest of my javascript code that will check if a particular file
>> exists on disk at the server. ie bool
>> FileExists("http://myServer.com/File.gif"); Any ideas on how to do
>> this? Thanks
>
> It could sorta be done with a timing loop and a size check, but how
> appropriate this is I don't know.
>
Why a timing loop? whats that got to do with anything?
The size check sounds promising, how do you do that?
Thanks
Eric

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