On Dec 16, 2013, at 6:40 AM, Jeff James <j...@jeffljames.com> wrote:
> 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"
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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
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