This is a simple python program to 'ping' a website.
What that really means is that it will connect to the
port 80 of a website and get the specified URL.

It will show the times for connect and retrieval.
It will also show any error codes. 

It is a great program for simple diagnostics.

Enjoy and let me know if you like it...

http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/programs/