s3 redirect diagnose

s3_hitter.py

import urllib2
import datetime
import time
import socket

domain = "201412051453-oregon-cats.s3.amazonaws.com"
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17202364/urllib2-urlopen-adding-host-header


while 1:
    with open("hitter_log", "a") as myfile:
        
        try:
            ip = socket.gethostbyname(domain)      
            url = 'http://' + ip + "/cat1.jpeg"
            headers = { 'Host' : domain }
            req = urllib2.Request(url, None, headers)    # make POST request to url with data and headers
            response = urllib2.urlopen(req)              # get the response from the server
    
            log = "{:%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S} {} {} \n".format(datetime.datetime.now(), ip, response.geturl());
            print(log)
            myfile.write(log)
            
        except socket.gaierror as e:
            log = "socket error({0}): {1}\n".format(e.errno, e.strerror) 
            print log
            myfile.write(log)

    time.sleep(10)