Question

I am writing a diagnostic page for SiteScope and one area we need to test is if the connection to the file/media assets are accesible from the web server. One way I think I can do this is load the image via code behind and test to see if the IIS status message is 200.

So basically I should be able to navigate to within the site to a folder like this: /media/1/image.jpg and see if it returns 200…if not throw exception.

I am struggling to figure out how to write this code.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Just use HEAD. No need to download the entire image if you don’t need it. Here some boilerplate code.

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create('url'); request.Method = 'HEAD';  bool exists; try {     request.GetResponse();     exists = true; } catch {    exists = false; }