# Test if external zip exists

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/test-if-external-zip-exists/288605
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 18, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/test-if-external-zip-exists/288605 "2009-05-18T20:40:03Z")
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### Author: ![pittsburghjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@pittsburghjoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pittsburghjoe)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/test-if-external-zip-exists/288605/1 "2009-05-18T20:40:03Z")

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I know you can use IO\_ERROR when trying to catch images or swf’s that don’t exist …but what about zip’s? Would you try to load each zip and then somehow cancel it after a couple bits have been loaded? I don’t know if that’s even possible.

Is this something that has to be done with a server side language? I don’t have that option if so.