in visual basic how can i tell if a web link works or not?

[aaa]

i want to be able to see if a certain webpage works using visual basic

eg

http://weather.news.com.au/cap_index_frame_sydney.htm

 

and if it doesnt work move on to the nextpage on the list to see if that works. If it works , stop what its doing and view it etc

[divil]

You could establish a socket class and manually send a HEAD request for the page to the webserver, that would do it, without having to download all the content on the page.

 

The easier method would be to use WebClient to download the whole page and catch an exception if the page wasn't found. This would be slower.