Testing network connection using socket programming

Author: GothamK

tests/client-server/socket-test.py

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+# Testing network connection to Google using socket programming
+
+import socket # for socket
+import sys
+ 
+try:
+    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+    print ("Socket successfully created")
+except socket.error as err:
+    print ("socket creation failed with error %s" %(err))
+ 
+# default port for socket
+port = 80
+ 
+try:
+    host_ip = socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')
+except socket.gaierror:
+ 
+    # this means could not resolve the host
+    print ("there was an error resolving the host")
+    sys.exit()
+ 
+# connecting to the server
+s.connect((host_ip, port))
+ 
+print ("the socket has successfully connected to google")