Advanced Python Programming

Running a ping test

With the basic knowledge of HTTP requests and the requests module in Python in mind, we will go through the rest of this chapter with a central problem: running a ping test. A ping test is a process in which you test the communication between your system and specific web servers, simply by making a request to each of the servers in question. By considering the HTTP response status code (potentially) returned by the server, the test is used to evaluate either the internet connection of your own system or the availability of the servers.

Ping tests are quite common among web administrators, who usually have to manage a large number of websites simultaneously. Ping tests are a good tool to quickly identify pages that are ...