Validate link for iframe

[Oggy]

Hi,
I'm using an iframe to include one doc inside another. Trouble is, the name of the doc that gets loaded is a variable, and the document it refers to might not exist. Is there some way to validate that it's there prior to loading?:confused:

[ACJavascript]

You mean somthing like

Click me to go to page 1

then the user clicks.. the script checks to make sure Page 1 is there and then loads it if it is?

If so I would use a server-side script to do that.

[Oggy]

But what needs to be in the script to check if the page exists?

[ACJavascript]

you could use perl like so

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open(data,"directory/TheFile.html") || &NotThere;
@da(data);
close(data);

print "THIS PAGE IS THERE";
exit;

sub NotThere {
print "This page isn't here";
exit;
}

[ReadMe.txt]

i would use PHP for this actually:

<?
echo (file_exists($_GET['page'])) ? "<script>location.replace('{$_GET['page']}')</script> : 'Page Does not Exist' ;
?>


save that as something like pagecheck.php then link to it like so:

pagecheck.php?page=home.htm where home.htm is the page you want.