On 16 May 2018, at 14:23, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:

Or use luasocket, which is included in the luatex binary:

\startluacode
content, status, authinfo = socket.http.request{
   method = "HEAD",
   url = "http://hansvandermeer.myqnapcloud.com/archive/denhaag/hga-dtb-1869-6040.pdf”
}

print (status)

\stopluacode

prints ‘404’ in this case.

Taco

On 16 May 2018, at 13:45, Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com> wrote:

On 05/16/2018 11:23 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote:

I would be satisfied when a returned 404 error code will be handled
within a reasonable (configurable) time delay. As for redirection, there
I would not mind if it is not included.
Restrictions like that are not a problem for me, because this is for
building a pdf that accesses many internet located files. The check on
existence is therefore especially meant for spotting missing or misnamed
files.

You can use libcurl via ffi: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

\startluacode
local ffi = require("ffi")

ffi.cdef[[
typedef struct Curl_easy CURL;
typedef int CURLcode;
typedef int CURLoption;
typedef int CURLINFO;
typedef size_t(*callback)(void *buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void
*userp);

CURLcode curl_global_init(long flags);
CURL *curl_easy_init(void);
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *curl, CURLoption option, ...);
CURLcode curl_easy_perform(CURL *curl);
CURLcode curl_easy_getinfo(CURL *curl, CURLINFO info, ...);
void curl_easy_cleanup(CURL *curl);
void curl_global_cleanup(void);
]]

-- magic numbers
local CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT = 3
local CURLOPT_URL = 10002
local CURLOPT_NOBODY = 44
local CURLOPT_HEADER = 42
local CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION = 20011
local CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE = 0x200000 + 2

local lcurl = ffi.load("curl")

local function discard(buffer, size, nmemb, userp)
  return size * nmemb
end

function check_status(url)
  lcurl.curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_DEFAULT)

  local curl = lcurl.curl_easy_init()

  lcurl.curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url)
  lcurl.curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOBODY, ffi.cast("long",1))
  lcurl.curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, ffi.cast("long",1))
  lcurl.curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,
ffi.cast("callback",discard));

  local res = lcurl.curl_easy_perform(curl)
  local c_http_code = ffi.new("long[1]")
  lcurl.curl_easy_getinfo(curl, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE, c_http_code);

  lcurl.curl_easy_cleanup(curl)
  lcurl.curl_global_cleanup()

  return tonumber(c_http_code[0])
end
\stopluacode

\starttext

\ctxlua{context(check_status("http://example.com/"))}

\ctxlua{context(check_status("https://example.com/"))}

\ctxlua{context(check_status("https://example.com/xyz"))}

\stoptext

Hans van der Meer

On 16 May 2018, at 12:41, Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com
<mailto:henrimenke@gmail.com>> wrote:

On 05/16/2018 09:31 PM, Hans van der Meer wrote:

I tried to determine the existence of a file on the internet. See the
following macro call:

       % Test if file exists.
       \edef\theurl{\linkprotocol://\urlbase\xmlatt{#1}{link}\thesuffix}
       \doiffileelse
       {\theurl}
       {\verbose{HVDM-PEV-TEST}{file exists: \theurl}}
       {\verbose{HVDM-PEV-TEST}{file does not exist: \theurl}}

It seems that \doiffileelse always results in true except for local
files where nonexistence is correctly handled.

For example the following url definitely does not exist but nevertheless
\doiffileelse reports its existence:
HVDM-PEV-TEST   > file exists:
http://hansvandermeer.myqnapcloud.com/archive/denhaag/hga-dtb-1869-6040.pdf

Is it possible that the \doiffile macros are extended for files on the
internet or a correponding set \doifurl is developed?

I'm not speaking for the devs here, but I don't think that this is going
to be included.  It would require that all webpages send proper 404
codes and timeout after reasonable delay.  Also how would you handle
redirects?  Should the ConTeXt run be stalled because checking for a
files existence on the web is caught in a redirect loop?

Hans van der Meer



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