Is there a faster way to check if an external web page exists?

Question

I wrote this method to check if a page exists or not:

protected bool PageExists(string url)
{
try
    {
        Uri u = new Uri(url);
        WebRequest w = WebR         


        

Answer 1

I simply used Fredrik Mörk answer above but placed it within a method:

private bool checkURL(string url)
        {
            bool pageExists = false;
            try
            {
                HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
                request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Head;
                HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
                pageExists = response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                //Do what ever you want when its no working...
                //Response.Write( e.ToString());
            }
            return pageExists;
        }