webbrowser - show error if page can't be opened

[j4ss13]

Hi,

I am making a checkprogram to check if a website is still online. I want the program to show a message when a website isn't online anymore. I am checking this with a timer en a webbrowser, if the browser can not reach the webpage, it should show a message.

But how do I do that or is it even possible...?

[Skilleddreamer]

you could try something like this

    Public Sub CheckifSiteExists()


        Dim HttpWReq As HttpWebRequest = _
                       CType(WebRequest.Create("http://www.google.com"), HttpWebRequest)

        Try
            HttpWReq.GetResponse()
            MsgBox("The website does exist")

        Catch
            MsgBox("The website doesn't exist")

        End Try

    End Sub