I'm using idhttp (Indy) to do some website checking. All I want it to do is check the response code from the server after my request has been sent, I don't want to actually have to receive the HTML output from the server as I'm only monitoring for a 200 OK code, any other code meaning there is an issue of some form.
I've looked up idhttp help documents and the only way I could see to possible do this would be to assign the code to a MemoryStream
and then just clear it straight away, however that isn't very efficient and uses memory that isn't needed. Is there a way to just call a site and get the response but ignore the HTML sent back that is more efficient and doesn't waste memory?
Currently the code would look something like this. However this is just sample code which I haven't tested yet, I'm just using it to explain what I'm trying to do.
Procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
http : TIdHttp;
s : TStream;
url : string;
code : integer;
begin
s := TStream.Create();
http := Tidhttp.create();
url := 'http://www.WEBSITE.com';
try
http.get(url,s);
code := http.ResponseCode;
ShowMessage(IntToStr(code));
finally
s.Free();
http.Free();
end;
TIdHTTP.Head()
is the best option. However, as an alternative, in the latest version you can call TIdHTTP.Get()
with a nil destination TStream
, or a TIdEventStream
with no event handlers assigned, and it will still read the server's data but not store it anywhere.
Either way, also keep in mind that if the server sends back a failure ResponseCode, TIdHTTP will raise an exception (unless you use the AIgnoreReplies
parameter to specify specific ResponseCode values you are interested in), so you should account for that as well, eg:
procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
http : TIdHttp;
url : string;
code : integer;
begin
url := 'http://www.WEBSITE.com';
http := TIdHTTP.Create(nil);
try
try
http.Head(url);
code := http.ResponseCode;
except
on E: EIdHTTPProtocolException do
code := http.ResponseCode; // or: code := E.ErrorCode;
end;
ShowMessage(IntToStr(code));
finally
http.Free();
end;
end;
procedure Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var
http : TIdHttp;
url : string;
code : integer;
begin
url := 'http://www.WEBSITE.com';
http := TIdHTTP.Create(nil);
try
try
http.Get(url, nil);
code := http.ResponseCode;
except
on E: EIdHTTPProtocolException do
code := http.ResponseCode; // or: code := E.ErrorCode;
end;
ShowMessage(IntToStr(code));
finally
http.Free();
end;
end;
Try with http.head()
instead of http.get()
.