added hourly/daily/monthly

index.html

@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ <h1>Flakey Error-prone Server</h1>
       <li><a href="/err/404">/err/404</a> will throw a 404 error every time.  Valid choices are 
         400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504 and 505</li>
       <li>So for example <a href="/2/401">/2/401</a> will throw a 401 error 50% of the time.</li>
+      <li><a href="/hour">/hour</a> will error every other hour.</li>
+      <li><a href="/day">/day</a> will error every other day.</li>
+      <li><a href="/month">/month</a> will error every other month.</li>
     </ul>
 
     <p>That's about it, it's hosted on <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine">Google App Engine</a> source is up at <a href="https://github.com/eurica/FEPServer">github.com/eurica/FEPServer</a>

main.py

@@ -1,16 +1,26 @@
 from google.appengine.ext import webapp
 from google.appengine.ext.webapp import util
 import random
+from datetime import datetime
 
 class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
   errors = [400,401,402,403,404,405,406,407,408,409,410,411,412,413,414,415,416,500,501,502,503,504,505]
   def get(self):
     opts = self.request.path.split('/')
 
-    try:
-      odds = int(opts[1])
-    except:
-      odds = 1
+    odds = 1
+    if(opts.count>1):
+      if( (opts[1]=="hour") & (datetime.utcnow().hour % 2) ):
+        odds = -1
+      elif( (opts[1]=="day") & (datetime.utcnow().day % 2) ):
+        odds = -1
+      elif( (opts[1]=="month") & (datetime.utcnow().month % 2) ):
+        odds = -1
+      else:
+        try:
+          odds = int(opts[1])
+        except:
+           odds = 1
 
     try:
       err = 500;
@@ -19,7 +29,7 @@ def get(self):
     except:
       err = random.choice(self.errors)
 
-    if( random.randint(1, odds) == 1 ):
+    if( (odds > 0) & (random.randint(1, max(odds,1)) == 1) ):
       self.response.set_status(err)
       self.response.out.write("<h1>Error: " + str(err) + "</h1><br>\n")
       self.response.out.write('I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error. ')