detect if a URL exists or not

[timmu]

Aamer4yu, thanks much for your answer!

The problem that I see with "url.isValid()" is that it only seems to detect whether the URL syntax is valid. I' like to detect if the webiste exists. I use IE and when I open a website that doesn't exist (for example http://www.wolf222.com) the browser opens a window where it says that the website doesn't exist and isValid() doesn't think anything is wrong.

Is it possible to detect if a webiste exists?

Is the only way to do it to open the HTML file of the error message and read it and try to detect if it is a standard error message? If that is the case, how do you open an HTML from the internet so that you could read it like a normal file? I use Qt 4.4.

Thanks again!