Send GET request and manage exceptions

send_request.py

import socket
import httplib
import urllib2
import logging

# Get an instance of a logger
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def send_request(url):
    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(url.encode('utf8'))
    except urllib2.URLError as exc:
        logger.error(
            u'Error fetching data (HTTPError); error code "{0}"'.format(
                unicode(exc.code)
            ),
        )
        return {'success': False}
    except urllib2.URLError as exc:
        logger.error(
            u'Error fetching data (URLError): "{0}"'.format(
                unicode(exc.reason)
            )
        )
        return {'success': False}
    except httplib.HTTPException as exc:
        logger.error(
            u'Error fetching data (HTTPException):"{0}"'.format(
                unicode(exc),
            )
        )
        return {'success': False}
    except socket.timeout, exc:
        logger.info(
            u'Timeout error:"{0}"'.format(
                unicode(exc),
            )
        )
        return {'success': False}
    return {
        'success': True,
        'data': response.read(),
    }