From 05286186d3f24e01b5bb3cc4a9ae4ad3de345578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cedricbonhomme <devnull@localhost>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:16:19 +0200
Subject: Added detect_url_errors() function.

---
 utils.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 4b7104d1..7e7edfde 100755
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import smtplib
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 
 import urllib2
+import BaseHTTPServer
 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -58,6 +59,24 @@ url_finders = [ \
     re.compile("'\\<((mailto:)|)[-A-Za-z0-9\\.]+@[-A-Za-z0-9\\.]+"), \
 ]
 
+def detect_url_errors(list_of_urls):
+    """
+    Detect URL errors.
+    """
+    errors = []
+    for url in list_of_urls:
+        req = urllib2.Request(url)
+        try:
+            urllib2.urlopen(req)
+        except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
+            # server couldn't fulfill the request
+           errors.append((url, e.code, \
+                BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.responses[e.code][1]))
+        except urllib2.URLError, e:
+            # failed to reach the server
+            errors.append((url, e.reason.errno ,e.reason.strerror))
+    return errors
+
 def detect_language(text):
     """
     Detect the language of a text.
-- 
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