Johan Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi all, > > I looked a little bit at the urllib and it all looks fairly easy. > What I didn't see, if it is there, was how to know or identify if a page > was successfully downloaded. I want to do tests to see if a connection > to a webpage was successful by parsing whatever came back. > > Will this be the easiest way of doing this or is there a different way > of testing the availability of webpages? Let's say I can connect to a > webpage, but it failed to upload 100%, how will I know that the > connection was not 100% successful? I'm not very familiar with url > parsing and HTML to know if there are other indicators to notify me if a > page or any web access is possible. > > Once this was done, can I add features to say how fast the page was > downloaded? > > if you use httplib you can capture the returned headers and look at the error code. 404 if the page wasn't found,etc etc. I'm really bad at using it so I won't attempt to give you an example. GIYF I guess :) -Luke > Thanks > > Johan > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >
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