in reply to checking if a file / image exists on another server

Can't ... resist ...
if ( -e "arecibo://life.outer.space/signals/beep-beep.au") { print "exists! SETI, eat your heart out" } else { print "does not exist"; }

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Re: Re: checking if a file / image exists on another server
by Grygonos (Chaplain) on Sep 16, 2003 at 18:03 UTC

    I'm not sure if that operator is capable of doing it that way. Giving it an address without using some form of module to translate/connect/make sense of the address, it probably just checks the current directory of execution for a file with the name of that address.

    Below is a test...