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twaddington/remote_file_exists.py

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remote_file_exists.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
from urllib import urlopen, quote
url = 'http://www.example.com/example.jpg'
# Check valid url
resource = urlopen(url)
status = resource.getcode()
content_type = resource.info().get('Content-Type')
# Print result
print '%d: %s at %s\n' % (status, content_type, url)
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