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Ruby Remote File Checker
require 'rubygems'
require 'open-uri'
require 'net/http'
def remote_file_exists?(url)
url = URI.parse(url)
Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) do |http|
return http.head(url.request_uri).code == "200"
end
end
