Testing for connection to a website

[Alexnb]

Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific website.
Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and
am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if that was what you
guys wanted me to do, but I don't think so, you guys are smarter than that.
So, how can I test for connection to a website.
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[Jordan]

On Jul 15, 3:43*pm, Alexnb <[e-mail]:

Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific website.
Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and
am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if that was what you
guys wanted me to do, but I don't think so, you guys are smarter than that.
So, how can I test for connection to a website.
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Ping it? ~_^

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-07-15, Alexnb <al********@gmail.comwrote:

Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost.

No, it didn't get lost. Your question was answered and you
didn't like the answer.

So anyway I need to figure out how to test if the user is able
to connect to a specific website. Last time I got pointed to
the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and am not
connected, the program stops.

How long did you wait? Depending on what/how/where the network
is broken, it make take a minute or two for the connection
attempt to fail. You may not like it, but that's how TCP
works. You're concerned with TCP connections, so you're going
to have to live with it.

So I don't know if that was what you guys wanted me to do,

Yes it was what we advised you to do.

but I don't think so, you guys are smarter than that. So, how
can I test for connection to a website.

Like we told you:

1) Open a connection using urllib or urllib2.
2) The attempt will either fail or succeed.
3) Proceed accordingly.

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[Larry Bates]

Alexnb wrote:

Okay, I already made this post, but it kinda got lost. So anyway I need to
figure out how to test if the user is able to connect to a specific website.
Last time I got pointed to the urllib2 page, but if I do urlopen() and and
am not connected, the program stops. So I don't know if that was what you
guys wanted me to do, but I don't think so, you guys are smarter than that.
So, how can I test for connection to a website.

You can test DNS resolution by doing this:

import socket
#
# Check to make sure domain is legal and that I can resolve it to IP addr
#
try:
ipaddr=socket.gethostbyname(domain)
except socket.gaierror:
print "Internet connection or DNS error"

For the "connect to a specific website" portion you just have to wait until it
times out to determine failure.

-Larry