import urllib2 import urlparse from util import hook @hook.command def down(inp): '''.down -- checks to see if the site is down''' inp = inp.strip() if not inp: return down.__doc__ if 'http://' not in inp: inp = 'http://' + inp inp = 'http://' + urlparse.urlparse(inp).netloc # http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-December/589854.html try: request = urllib2.Request(inp) request.get_method = lambda: "HEAD" http_file = urllib2.urlopen(request) head = http_file.read() return inp + ' seems to be up' except urllib2.URLError: return inp + ' seems to be down'