url validation problem

[Eric Howell]

I wonder if someone could lend me a hand.
In the following snippit of code I want to validate that I have connected to the correct URL. How can I do this.

public void testUrl(URL u)
{     
  try    
  {                          
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader  (u.openConnection().getInputStream())); ect

Hope someone can help me out as I fail to find away but feel that you must be able to do this.
Thanks in advance

[aditya mahajan]

I think this should solve your problem
try
{
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
}
catch(IOEXception e)
{
}
if an exception is caught then you could not open the connection
aditya

Originally posted by Eric Howell:
[B]I wonder if someone could lend me a hand.
In the following snippit of code I want to validate that I have connected to the correct URL. How can I do this.

public void testUrl(URL u)
{     
  try    
  {                          
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader  (u.openConnection().getInputStream())); ect

Hope someone can help me out as I fail to find away but feel that you must be able to do this.
Thanks in advance
[/B]