python/example/ping/ping.py at v2.0.1 · juniorjava2/python

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""

Example of how to ping a webpage for a status code, basically just

to check that the page is there and the webserver is replying with

a positive code, such as 200.

More information: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13641613

The module requests needs to be installed with pip

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

pip install requests

"""

print(__doc__)

import time

import requests

url = "http://dbwebb.se/humans.txt"

try:

# Get current time

rTime = time.ctime(time.time())

# Request header from url

print("Ready to send HTTP request to ", url, "\n(press return)", end='')

input()

req = requests.head(url)

# Print result

print("Request to ", url, " sent at ", rTime)

print("Recieved status code: ", req.status_code)

print("Page was last modified: ", req.headers["Last-Modified"])

except requests.ConnectionError:

print("Failed to connect")