'WININET
Private Declare Function HttpQueryInfoW Lib "WININET" (ByVal hRequest As Long, ByVal dwInfoLevel As Long, ByRef lpBuffer As Any, ByRef lpdwBufferLength As Long, ByRef lpdwIndex As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function InternetCloseHandle Lib "WININET" (ByVal hInternet As Long) As Boolean
Private Declare Function InternetOpenW Lib "WININET" (ByVal lpszAgent As Long, ByVal dwAccessType As Long, ByVal lpszProxy As Long, ByVal lpszProxyBypass As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function InternetOpenUrlW Lib "WININET" (ByVal hInternet As Long, ByVal lpszUrl As Long, ByVal lpszHeaders As Long, ByVal dwHeadersLength As Long, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByRef dwContext As Long) As Long
Private Const INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT As Long = 1
Private Const INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD      As Long = &H80000000
Private Const HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE    As Long = 19
Private Const HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_NUMBER    As Long = &H20000000
Private Const HTTP_STATUS_OK            As Long = 200
Private Const HTTP_STATUS_REDIRECT      As Long = 302
Private Const STRING_AGENT              As String = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
- Option Explicit 
-   
- Public Function CheckWetherExists(ByVal sURL As String) As Boolean 
-     Dim hInet                           As Long 
-     Dim hURL                            As Long 
-     Dim lStatus                         As Long 
-   
-     hInet = InternetOpenW(StrPtr(STRING_AGENT), INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT, 0&, 0&, 0&) 
-     If hInet = 0 Then GoTo Fail 
-   
-     hURL = InternetOpenUrlW(hInet, StrPtr(sURL), 0&, 0&, INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD, ByVal 0&) 
-     If hURL = 0 Then GoTo Fail 
-   
-     If HttpQueryInfoW(hURL, HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_NUMBER Or HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE, lStatus, &H4, ByVal 0&) Then 
-         CheckWetherExists = (lStatus = HTTP_STATUS_OK) Or (lStatus = HTTP_STATUS_REDIRECT) 
-     End If 
-   
- Fail: 
-     Call InternetCloseHandle(hInet) 
-     Call InternetCloseHandle(hURL) 
- End Function 
Yo lo hago mas guay 

, aunque no se si mas rapido... 

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HTTP_STATUS_REDIRECT 