[Tutor] Monitoring an Internet connection in Python

[Terry Carroll]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Kent Johnson wrote:

> I have a DSL router with a built-in web server. One of the web pages shows 
> the connection status. It would be pretty simple to write a Python script 
> to poll the router web page and extract the status.

I hadn't thought of that.  I do use a router; it requires a logon (even 
with a user and password that each consist of empty strings), but I can 
probably finesse that.

Thanks for the idea.