From e6b49cfdb3d072a169cc9d20a183bc555f1603c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Wehling-Benatelli <sebastian.wehling@rub.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:58:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] module pylot.core.util.connection added: contains routines
 for web and network utilization

---
 pylot/core/util/connection.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pylot/core/util/connection.py

diff --git a/pylot/core/util/connection.py b/pylot/core/util/connection.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4f99ab81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pylot/core/util/connection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import urllib2
+
+
+def checkurl(url='https://ariadne.geophysik.rub.de/trac/PyLoT'):
+    try:
+        urllib2.urlopen(url, timeout=1)
+        return True
+    except urllib2.URLError:
+        pass
+    return False