Does anyone know how to check the type of image file returned by an external web server? Where the only differences would be the file size. Below is an HTML code example:

a href='http://www.keen.com/calls/PT_interimcall.asp?sid=5350849'><img
+ border=0 src='http://www.keen.com/calls/callimage.asp?sid=5350849&Im
+ageType=1'></a>

[download]

The image returned by the img src= would be either 'available', 'busy', 'away' etc. The only difference I can determine is filesize of the image returned by the web server based on the status of the caller.

I'd like to check the availablility of multiple accounts to market the 'available' advisors.

If there is a *different* way to find out the status it would be greatly appreciated to be pointed in that direction as well.

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction as to how to gather this information from the remote server.

Thank you,
Jason

Janitored by davido: Cleaned up formatting / code tags to match intent of original post.

In reply to How do I check the Status of an image file created from a script on another web server? by Perl Guy

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