Check to see if .htm file exists always retuning true

Asked Jul 04 '14 at 14:26

Active Jul 04 '14 at 14:37

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I want to check if a .htm file exists locally. I do:

            jQuery.ajax({
                url: 'blahblah',
                success: function (data, textStatus, xhr) {
                    console.log('xhr.status is ');
                    console.log(xhr.status);
                },
                error: function () {
                    console.log('in the error');
                },
                async: false
            });

This works fine in chrome. But in Phonegap app on Android, this always goes to the success, whether the file exists or not and the status is always 200. Any ideas?

edited Jul 04 '14 at 14:37

asked Jul 04 '14 at 14:26

Mark

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Your can check the response status ( i don't know how to retrieve it in jQuery ), just to give you an idea. If it equals 200 or 304, then file exists. – Vlas Bashynskyi Jul 04 '14 at 14:29
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5344145/how-to-get-response-status-code-from-jquery-ajax – mplungjan Jul 04 '14 at 14:30
@VLAS just edited question, checked and staus is 200 for files which definitely dont exist – Mark Jul 04 '14 at 14:37
did they exist some time earlier, if yes, then this can be result of caching. try to clear your cache. – Vlas Bashynskyi Jul 04 '14 at 14:39
nope never existed, im putting in nonsense for the url parameter and still 200 is returned! – Mark Jul 04 '14 at 14:42
Is your file a local one ? If yes, I've noticed an error in the Android `webivew` when you try to get it by Ajax. – Manitoba Jul 04 '14 at 14:46
yes its a local file, but it doesnt exist... – Mark Jul 04 '14 at 14:48
And the page that asks for the file is also local? You know, you can't access local files from JS loaded from remote server. – Radek Pech Jul 04 '14 at 15:24

Check to see if .htm file exists always retuning true

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