The 200 error is there to stop a certain vandalbot; it will not be shown if you send the cookie of a logged-in user (the latter because pywikipediabot got the 200 error as well).
Andre Engels
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:27:31 +0000, Jim Higson jh@333.org wrote:
How can I check if a page exists from a program?
I've tried doing a HEAD request to the page url with &action=raw, but that returns 200 regardless if the page exists (bug or feature?). The only way I can find at the moment is the Date and Last-Modified response headers are the same if the article doesn't exist yet, but this seems a bit too hackish.
Any suggestions?