Free Hosting Tricks #1

[Interscopia]

Nice tutorial! Very descriptive. I might have to try this out.

[Hoobrum]

Great idea, but not all browser support onerror if I'm not mistaken.

[cybrax]

Thanks for the feedback Hoobrum, can confirm it works for latest FF but alas not IE9.
Will look at revising the script later in the week, if anybody else wants to try by all means do so.


Pondering the possabilities...

• Onreadystatechange might work but 100% sure
• vaugely recall IE had a special event handler ImageLoadFailed?
• Generating the 'status' variable using a remote JS script from the site being checked rather than looking for the image load error.. maybe
• Use Google apps engine with Python or Java.... uuugh
• Beat it to death with a Yahoo Pipe.. tempting but would be ugly
• Use FLASH / actionscript... aaagh I hate writing that stuff lol!

[g4gami9219]

thank nice

[henk506673]

good post i am sure many people will find this usefull

[cybrax]

Update: scratch previous ramblings, have horibble feeling it's not the event handling but IE not accepting the redirect using window.location