Verify network connection in Lambda environment

README.md

Send payload:

{
  "request": "<url>"
}

The lambda will request the address and return the output in it's logs.

lambda_function.py

import requests

def handler(event,context):
  print("Requesting {}".format(event["request"]))
  try:
    res = requests.get(event["request"], timeout = 10)
  except requests.ConnectionError as ex:
    print("A connection error occurred")
    print(ex)
    exit(1)
  except requests.exceptions.RequestException as ex:
    print("A generic request library error occurred")
    print(ex)
    exit(1)
  except Exception as ex:
    print("Exception type: {}".format(type(ex).__name__))
    print("An error occurred while contacting the server")
    exit(1)

  print("Status Code: {} [{}]".format(res.status_code,res.reason))
  if res.ok:
    print("Response is okay")
    print(res.content)
  else:
    print("Response is not okay")

requirements.txt

requests