try to fetch http status

test.py

#!/bin/env python

import time
import httplib

def scanx_run(command, server):
    scanx = httplib.HTTPConnection(server)
    # debug mode
    # scanx.set_debuglevel(1)
    # run command
    print "run:", server + command
    scanx.request("GET", command)
    result = scanx.getresponse()

    # result status, debug on not ok (200)
    if (result.status != httplib.OK):
        print result.status, result.reason
        print result.read()

def main():
    start_time = time.time()
    scanx_run( "/" , "tw.yahoo.com" )
    print "now", time.time() - start_time

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()