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Jimmyborofan · 11-05-2012, 11:18 AM

Could I do this using Ajax? I am not really much of a client side developer and I am in a position where I have to learn some bits.

I am developing a help system where when a button is clicked a light box opens up an external help file

(it has to be external due to the server architecture and layout, please I have gone into this enough...)

Anyway the gist is this, if I perform a request and the page is not found I want a 'page not ready' page to be displayed instead, and the best way i can find round this is if the page returns a 404. So if I get this 404 I can call the default page instead.

I really am not looking for code examples (yet!) as I want to be able to try this out myself. But I need to know is it is possible that on a page button click can I discover if the page requested actually exists or not?

11-05-2012, 11:18 AM	PM User \| #1
Jimmyborofan New to the CF scene Join Date: May 2008 Location: Milton Keynes Posts: 7 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	testing for 404 Could I do this using Ajax? I am not really much of a client side developer and I am in a position where I have to learn some bits. I am developing a help system where when a button is clicked a light box opens up an external help file (it has to be external due to the server architecture and layout, please I have gone into this enough...) Anyway the gist is this, if I perform a request and the page is not found I want a 'page not ready' page to be displayed instead, and the best way i can find round this is if the page returns a 404. So if I get this 404 I can call the default page instead. I really am not looking for code examples (yet!) as I want to be able to try this out myself. But I need to know is it is possible that on a page button click can I discover if the page requested actually exists or not?