On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Jeff James <j...@jeffljames.com> wrot > > So I'm using the following script to check our sites to make sure they > are all up and some of them are reporting they are "down" when, in fact, > they are actually up. These sites do not require a logon in order for the > home page to come up. Could this be due to some port being blocked > internally ? Only one of the sites reporting as down is "https" but all > are internal sites. Is there some other component I should be including in > the script ? There are about 30 or 40 sites that I have listed in all. I > just use those in the following script as examples. Thanks > > import urllib > > sites = ["http://www.amazon.com/";, "https://internalsite.com/intranet.html";, > etc.] > > for site in sites: > try: > urllib.urlopen(site) > print site + " " > except Exception, e: > print site + " is down" > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > I've never used urllib, although I've done a fair amount of network > programming at lower levels. > > Are you sure the report of "down" isn't simply a time out due to the > server being busier than you expect when you hit it? > > -Bill > > After adding the line suggested by Larry, I was able to determine that the > URLs reporting as "down" were actually sites requiring authentication in > order to provide site content, so adding that line to the handler was at > least enlightening in that respect. Thanks Larry. > Glad to help. Here is some info on authenticating with urllib:
http://docs.python.org/2.7/howto/urllib2.html#id6 > >
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