This script will make HTTP requests on a regular basis and log any errors to a file with a timestamp. Useful for testing proxies.

http-proxy-test.py

# PROXY TESTER
# Run this script with an array of URLs and it will make HTTP requests. Whenever it encounters an error it will timestamp it and log it 

#import libs
import urllib2
import hashlib
import sys
import time
import datetime
#config
testURLlist=["http://8.8.8.8","http://google.com"]
timestamp=""
timeToWait=60

while True:
    print("Beginning iterative tests...")
    for testURL in testURLlist:
        print("Testing %s...") % testURL
        try:
            #get the timestamp for right now
            timestamp=datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time()).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
            httpResponse=urllib2.urlopen(testURL)
        except:
            print("Received Error for test!", testURL, sys.exc_info()[0])
            #file logging code
            with open("http-test-errorlog.txt","a+") as logfile:
                logfile.write(timestamp + " Received error for test of " + testURL + "\n")
        else:
            print("Success! Recieved response from %s") % testURL
            shaHash = hashlib.sha224(httpResponse.read()).hexdigest()
            print("Response SHA224 Hash: %s") % shaHash

            
    time.sleep(timeToWait)