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Topic: Domain Checker

Posted By: naeemsyed
Subject: Domain Checker
Date Posted: 12 June 2008 at 3:26pm

Hi All

I have a signup process which I have done ASP, I wanted to do a domain availability check in during the sign up process, I found a code that pings URL on the internet and adapted it so that it fitted within my code, its below

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function isDomainAvailable(strDomainName, strDomainExt)

isDomainAvailable = false

url = "www." & strDomainName & strDomainExt

Set objWShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Set objCmd = objWShell.Exec("ping " & url)

strPResult = objCmd.StdOut.Readall()

set objCmd = nothing: Set objWShell = nothing

if InStr(strPResult,"TTL=") > 0 then

errMsg = "'" & url & "' is already taken and not available"

isDomainAvailable = true

else

errMsg = "'" & url & "' may still be available"

isDomainAvailable = false

end if

end function

#################################################

When I run it on my local machine it all works fine, but when I uploaded it to the remote server on GODADDY (IIS 6.0) where I am hosting my site it gives this error
####################

WshShell.Exec error '80070005'

Access is denied.

#####################

I have searched on Google and can’t find a way around this, therefore I need help and if someone can advice me

1. Can some please tell me how to over this error so that the script starts working?

Replies:

Posted By: socialanimal
Date Posted: 12 June 2008 at 4:27pm

The fact that your getting an error denied message means that you can't access wscript on the server which is a security permission that most webhosts don't or won't allow. There is a way around this though, use the XMLHTTP component.

function isDomainAvailable(strDomainName, strDomainExt)

    isDomainAvailable = False
    url = "http://www." & strDomainName & strDomainExt

    set objXMLHTTP = server.createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

    objXMLHTTP.open "GET", url, FALSE

    objXMLHTTP.send NULL

    If objXMLHTTP.status => 200 AND objXMLHTTP.status < 300 Then
        isDomainAvailable = True
    Else
        isDomainAvailable = False
    End If

    set objXMLHTTP = nothing

End Function

Thats completely off the top of my head but should work fine for your needs. Any problems let me know

Posted By: naeemsyed
Date Posted: 12 June 2008 at 5:01pm

Thanks for the reply, I inserted the above code and got this error

#######################

msxml3.dll error '800c0005'

The system cannot locate the resource specified.

#######################################

the error line is pointing to

objXMLHTTP.send NULL

Please advice

Posted By: socialanimal
Date Posted: 12 June 2008 at 5:22pm

Change objXMLHTTP.send NULL to objXMLHTTP.send

Posted By: naeemsyed
Date Posted: 12 June 2008 at 9:00pm

Thank you very much, your advice helped, though it still gave a slight error, but once I changed

set objXMLHTTP = server.createobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

to
set objXMLHTTP = server.createobject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0")

It now works fine

Regards

Posted By: coolguy345
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 5:58am

Hi naeem..this is hassan here.....the project which u have done will help me out for my final year engineering project cos im doing the same project.....i have also tried with ur coding ...but its not working....anyhow im here explaining u how i have a textBox to enter the domain name and i got another one listBox to select the multiple extension like .com,.org,.edu,.net etc and wen the user click the sendButton it should show the reply in the label whether the domain name is available or not.pls help me out.Thanks in advance

Posted By: coolguy345
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 5:59am

im doing this project in asp.net using C#

Posted By: naeemsyed
Date Posted: 18 June 2008 at 1:31pm

Hi Coolguy

Sorry, the above is done is Classic ASP, I am not much of a C# person

Regards

Posted By: coolguy345
Date Posted: 19 June 2008 at 8:06am

anyways thanks for ur reply...if u have any idea abt domain name availability coding..pls let me knw..regards
hassan