Checking the HTTP Response Status Code

Simple HTTP GET request to download the HTML of a web page. Check the HTTP response status code (i.e. 200, 404, etc) to see if it downloaded successfully.

Download Chilkat Perl Module

use chilkat;

$http = new chilkat::CkHttp();

# Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $http->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

# Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.

$html = $http->quickGetStr("http://www.google.com/");

$status = $http->get_LastStatus();

if ($status == 200) {
    print "status = 200, OK!" . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "HTTP Response status = " . $status . "\r\n";

    # Display the complete response header.
    print $http->lastResponseHeader() . "\r\n";
}

# Now try a URL where we know we'll get a 404 response:
$html = $http->quickGetStr("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/NothingHere.html");

$status = $http->get_LastStatus();

if ($status == 200) {
    print "status = 200, OK!" . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "HTTP Response status = " . $status . "\r\n";

    # Display the complete response header.
    print $http->lastResponseHeader() . "\r\n";
}