look if file exists on webserver

[Skywalker]

I am having a litle problem with searching on an other machine. I made an search engine form my movies, it search if the file exists on my machine. But I also want to have my friends have a look at my movies so that means they must can see if the file is on my machine. I am running an IIS webserver. Searching localy is no problem but when i want to search from an other location it doesn't work. Does enybody has a klew how to do this? I Searched the holl web form some usefull information, but until now i still didn't find enything!!

 

Dim File As System.IO.File 
Dim Search As String 
Dim Search2 As String 
Search = Me.TextBox8.Text 
Search2 = ("C:Movie\" + Search + ".txt") 
'Search2 = ("http://213.93.123.204:80/" + Search + ".txt") 
'Search2 = CStr(Search2) 
If File.Exists("C:Movie\" + Search + ".txt") Then 
'If File.Exists("http://213.93.123.204:80/" + Search + ".txt") Then 
Dim stream_reader As New IO.StreamReader(Search2) 
Me.RichTextBox1.Text = "" 
'MessageBox.Show("File found.") 
Me.RichTextBox1.Text = stream_reader.ReadToEnd() 
Me.RichTextBox1.Select(0, 0) 
stream_reader.Close() 
Else 
Me.RichTextBox1.Text = "Movie not found" 
'MessageBox.Show("File not found.") 
End If 

[Guest mutant]

What errors are you getting? It could be something with access premissions to your computer, you might have to configure IIS.

[Skywalker]

Is doesn't give a specific error, but it just stops my program!

[quwiltw]

If you're talking about the commented out lines, then it's likely because you're trying to pass a url to the Exists method that is expecting a path. I *think* you'd need to use WebRequest if it's a url and File.Exists if it's a local or network path.

[Skywalker]

properly that will be it, i will try your info on my programma and we will see. Thx for the info :D