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alamsal/UrlStatusChecker.py

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UrlStatusChecker.py
import httplib
from urlparse import urlparse
def checkUrl(url):
p = urlparse(url)
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(p.netloc)
conn.request('HEAD', p.path)
resp = conn.getresponse()
return resp.status < 400
if __name__ == '__main__':
print checkUrl('http://www.stackoverflow.com') # True
print checkUrl('http://stackoverflow.com/notarealpage.html') # False
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