Question

I have a scenario where I navigate to a test site, but for whatever reason (connectivity issues, etc), sometimes, the test fails because it couldn’t reach the website. How do I ask for the HTTP header? I’m looking to check if it’s a 404, obviously, but I haven’t dealt with headers before.

Language of choice is C#, but I’m open.

Thanks for looking.

Answer 1

Make an HttpRequest (I’m not showing code for brevity), then set HttpMethod = "HEAD" and when you call GetResponse method do something like this

try{
    req.GetResponse();
} catch(WebException ex) {
    if (ex.Response != null)
        //Server explicit problem (ie. 404)
    else
        //Network problem: server wasn't even hit
}