How to Test Webserver Availability using Python

Hello Cybrary Community,

Today I’ll show you how to test the availability of a webserver using Python:

Let’s start writing our script.

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import socket, sys

if len(sys.argv) != 2:

    print >>sys.stderr, 'usage: python test_webserver.py <www.example.com>'

    sys.exit(2)

example = sys.argv[1]

try:

    infolist = socket.getaddrinfo(

        example, 'www', 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0,

        socket.AI_ADDRCONFIG | socket.AI_V4MAPPED | socket.AI_CANONNAME,

        )

except socket.gaierror, e:

    print 'Name service failure:', e.args[1]

    sys.exit(1)

info = infolist[0]  

socket_args = info[0:3]

address = info[4]

s = socket.socket(*socket_args)

try:

    s.connect(address)

except socket.error, e:

    print 'Network failure:', e.args[1]

else:

    print 'Success: host', info[3], 'is listening on port 80'

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An example of the script execution :

• #python test_webserver.py www.google.com
• Success: host www.google.com is listening on port 80

• #python test_webserver.py www.inexistingwebserver.hi
• Name service failure: getaddrinfo failed

• #python test_webserver.py 8.8.8.8
• Network failure: Une tentative de connexion a ÚchouÚ car le parti connectÚ nÆa pas rÚpondu convenablement au-delÓ dÆune certaine durÚe ou une connexion Útablie a ÚchouÚ car lÆh¶te de connexion nÆa pas rÚpondu

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