Re: performing URL validation

From: FC <flavio_at_tin.it>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:50:15 GMT
Message-ID: <bHdqa.4735$3M4.117457@news1.tin.it>

"Charles Dennis" <chasden_at_excite.com> wrote in message news:640ab47.0304250825.153ec385_at_posting.google.com...
> Any ideas on the best way to perform validation on URLs in Oracle
> database records? Any recommendations on software packages? I'm
> looking at an automated link checking system that can integrate with
> Oracle.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Charles

Using utl_http or utl_tcp, probably. You can retrieve the first n bytes from the linked page, with or without http headers, probably this would be sufficient for your purpose.

See the Supplied PL/SQL package reference for details, there are examples of usage as well.

Bye,
Flavio Received on Fri Apr 25 2003 - 11:50:15 CDT