Question

I have a WordPress self hosted blog which was down until last week. After updating WordPress, now the site is working fine. But I would like to check it frequently for next couple of days. Is it possible to write a program to do this so that I can schedule it?

Please give some suggestions. I am thinking of Python as the language for the program, but I am open to any language.

Answer 1

You can test if the website is up or down with a simple HTTPConnection, send a “OPTIONS *” request, if the answer is “200 OK”, your site is up, otherwise, check the http error codes.

import httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(your_host, port_probably_80)
connection.request("OPTIONS", "*")
response = connection.getresponse()
if response.status != httplib.OK or response.reason != "OK":
   print "Down"
else:
   print "Up :)"