title: How to check if RSS address is accessible
body: <p>I am using classic asp/vbscript to load a RSS. In this case the URL should start with https rather than http so I get the error : Access is denied. How can I check if the target url is accessible and healthy and the use it? </p>
  
  <pre><code>Set xmlDOM = CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.6.0")
  xmlDOM.async = False
  xmlDOM.setProperty "ServerHTTPRequest", True
  xmlDOM.Load("http://iqna.ir/fa/rss/services/36")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried to wrap it inside if/then but obviously will result in the same error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (xmlDOM.Load("http://iqna.ir/fa/rss/services/36")) then
     'Proceess the RSS content
  end if
  </code></pre>