ruby - Using Watir to check for bad links -

i have unordered list of links save off side, , want click each link , make sure goes real page , doesnt 404, 500, etc.

the issue not know how it. there object can inspect give me http status code or anything?

mylinks = browser.ul(:id, 'my_ul_id').links  mylinks.each |link|   link.click    # need check 200 status or here! how?    browser.back end 

my answer similar idea tin man's.

 require 'net/http' require 'uri'  mylinks = browser.ul(:id, 'my_ul_id').links  mylinks.each |link|   u = uri.parse link.href   status_code = net::http.start(u.host,u.port){|http| http.head(u.request_uri).code }   # testing rspec   status_code.should == '200' end 

if use test::unit testing framework, can test following, think

   assert_equal '200',status_code 

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another sample (including chuck van der linden's idea): check status code , log out urls if status not good.

 require 'net/http' require 'uri'  mylinks = browser.ul(:id, 'my_ul_id').links  mylinks.each |link|   u = uri.parse link.href   status_code = net::http.start(u.host,u.port){|http| http.head(u.request_uri).code }   unless status_code == '200'     file.open('error_log.txt','a+'){|file| file.puts "#{link.href} #{status_code}" }   end end