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...
I tested this with the following 
#!usr/bin/perl -w

if( -e "www.yahoo.com")
{
   print "exists\n";
}
else
{
   print "doesn't\n";
}

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I created a file called www.yahoo.com since I couldnt create it with the /'s intact. When I ran the following code with the file existing it prints exists.. after the file deleted it prints doesn't. Which is to be expected. So in short it seems more like a job for logging into another server via telnet or ssh and then checking it that way.

 edit::yeah LWP::Simple will do that...sorry had never used it

In reply to Re: Re: checking if a file / image exists on another server by Grygonos
in thread checking if a file / image exists on another server by Anonymous Monk

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