static boolean exists()

in generator/src/main/groovy/generator/SiteGenerator.groovy [390:398]

• 8 lines of code
• 1 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    static boolean exists(String u) {
        def url = new URL(u)
        HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(false)
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection()
        connection.setRequestMethod("HEAD")
        // pretend to be a browser to keep fussy websites a little happier
        connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)")
        return connection.responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK
    }