verify page loaded succesfully in frame

[Luis Hernandez]

What is the standard practice to verify that a page has loaded succesfully
in a frame when one issues a framename.href="url"? For example, detecting
404's, or other errors (like domain doesn't exist).

thanks

[kaeli]

In article <42********@news.microsoft.com>, "Luis Hernandez" <luish[<[at]>]
microsoft.com> enlightened us with...

What is the standard practice to verify that a page has loaded succesfully
in a frame when one issues a framename.href="url"? For example, detecting
404's, or other errors (like domain doesn't exist).

I believe you can have an onload handler for a frame, as with an image.
But keep in mind that if the source is not on the same server, domain, and
protocol, you can't check the doc to see if it's a 404 or not.
For this kind of thing, server-side scripting is better.

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[Luis Hernandez]

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In article <42********@news.microsoft.com>, "Luis Hernandez" <luish[<[at]>] microsoft.com> enlightened us with...

What is the standard practice to verify that a page has loaded succesfully in a frame when one issues a framename.href="url"? For example, detecting 404's, or other errors (like domain doesn't exist).

I believe you can have an onload handler for a frame, as with an image.
But keep in mind that if the source is not on the same server, domain, and
protocol, you can't check the doc to see if it's a 404 or not.
For this kind of thing, server-side scripting is better.

So how would I do that?

(1) parent.theframe.location.href=URL
(2) ??

The pages loaded in the frames are all in the same domain so I have full
access to the contents.

Is there a standard way of checking that 'all is ok' ? Otherwise, I have to
use findText("404") or variations of it?

Thanks!

[c.anandkumar]

Luis Hernandez wrote:

"kaeli" <ti******@NOSPAM.comcast.net> wrote in message
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In article <42********@news.microsoft.com>, "Luis Hernandez" <luish[<[at]>]

microsoft.com> enlightened us with...

What is the standard practice to verify that a page has loaded succesfully in a frame when one issues a framename.href="url"? For example, detecting 404's, or other errors (like domain doesn't exist).

I believe you can have an onload handler for a frame, as with an image. But keep in mind that if the source is not on the same server, domain, and protocol, you can't check the doc to see if it's a 404 or not.
For this kind of thing, server-side scripting is better.

So how would I do that?

what about onreadystatechange()?
(1) parent.theframe.location.href=URL
(2) ??

The pages loaded in the frames are all in the same domain so I have full access to the contents.

Is there a standard way of checking that 'all is ok' ? Otherwise, I have to use findText("404") or variations of it?

Thanks!