I need to be able to tell if a link (URL) points to an XML file (RSS feed), or a regular HTML file just by looking at the headers, or something similiar (without downloading it)
Any good advice for me there ? 🙂
Thanks!
Roey
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I need to be able to tell if a link (URL) points to an XML file (RSS feed), or a regular HTML file just by looking at the headers, or something similiar (without downloading it)
Any good advice for me there ? 🙂
Thanks!
Roey
You could just do a HEAD request instead of a full POST/GET
That will get you the headers for that page which should include the content type.
From that you should be able to distinguish if its text/html or xml
Theres a good example here on SO