Web tech details of a URL

Checking all HTTP headers, if being redirected and if HTTPS is in use.

checks/technical.py

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+import requests
+
+def check_http_headers(url, timeout=60, verify=True):
+    """ Returns HTTP headers for givn URL. Returns a CaseInsensitiveDict
+
+        Atributes: url, timeout (optional) in seconds, verify (optional) as bool
+    """
+    response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, verify=verify)
+
+    return response.headers
+
+def is_redirecting(url, timeout=60):
+    """Check if a URL is redirecting
+
+    Attributes: URL, timeout in seconds (optional)
+    """
+    response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, verify=True)
+
+    if '301' in str(response.history) or '302' in str(response.history): return True
+
+    return False
+
+def use_https(url, timeout=60):
+    """Check if a URL is using or referring to SSL/TLS. Won't check the URL contents, just the served URL (which might not be the requested one)
+
+    Attributes: URL, timeout in seconds (optional)
+    """
+
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout, verify=True)
+        if 'https://' in response.url: return True
+
+        return False
+    except:
+        # Defaulting to 'False', probably the web server don't know what to do
+        print('Warning: The HTTPS request to {url} failed, assuming a \'False\''.format(url=url))
+        return False
+
+"""
+If file is executed on itself then call a definition, mostly for testing purposes
+"""
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    #print(use_https('https://gp.se'))
+    #print(use_https('http://vgregion.se'))
+    #print(use_https('http://webbstrategiforalla.se'))
+
+    #print(is_redirecting('http://vgregion.se'))
+
+    #print(check_http_headers('http://amazon.com/')['Content-Type'])   # if you'd like to get a single value
+    for key, value in check_http_headers('http://amazon.com/').items():
+        print('Key: \'{k}\', value: \'{val}\''.format(k=key, val=value))