topic Validating web URLs in a database file in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/validating-web-urls-in-a-database-file/m-p/227165#M17622 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>We have high quality PDF maps for most of our Wildlife Areas.&nbsp; The feature class we put out in our web applications contains a field with a hyper link to these PDFs.&nbsp; Not all Wildlife Areas have a PDF map but I'd like to programmatically populate the field and then NULL out the field if there is no PDF map at that web location.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to test the validity of a web URL in Python?&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:24:36 GMT RandyKreuziger 2012-02-16T19:24:36Z Validating web URLs in a database file https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/validating-web-urls-in-a-database-file/m-p/227165#M17622 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>We have high quality PDF maps for most of our Wildlife Areas.&nbsp; The feature class we put out in our web applications contains a field with a hyper link to these PDFs.&nbsp; Not all Wildlife Areas have a PDF map but I'd like to programmatically populate the field and then NULL out the field if there is no PDF map at that web location.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to test the validity of a web URL in Python?&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:24:36 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/validating-web-urls-in-a-database-file/m-p/227165#M17622 RandyKreuziger 2012-02-16T19:24:36Z Re: Validating web URLs in a database file https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/validating-web-urls-in-a-database-file/m-p/227166#M17623 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Im sure there are better ways to do this, but heres a quick and dirty way:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="lia-code-sample line-numbers language-none"> import urllib2 try: &nbsp; urllib2.urlopen('http://hsfdsda.com') except: &nbsp; print "didnt work" </PRE></BODY></HTML> Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:03:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/validating-web-urls-in-a-database-file/m-p/227166#M17623 KevinHibma 2021-12-11T11:03:58Z