Emanuele Aina
--- a/scripts/test_urls.py

+ 7

− 2
+++ b/scripts/test_urls.py

+ 7

− 2
 @@ -84,11 +84,16 @@ headers={
    "User-Agent" : "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36",
    }

+session = requests.Session()
+adapter = requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter(max_retries=3)
+session.mount('http://', adapter)
+session.mount('https://', adapter)
+
 def url_check(url):
    start = time.perf_counter()
    resp = None
    try:
-        resp = requests.head(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, timeout=60, verify=False)
+        resp = session.head(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, timeout=60, verify=False)
        status = resp.ok
        resp.close()
    except Exception as e:
 @@ -100,7 +105,7 @@ def url_check(url):
        # that's not got a 200 status code with GET as well.
        if not status:
            resp = None
-            resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, timeout=60, verify=False)
+            resp = session.get(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, timeout=60, verify=False)
            status = resp.ok
            resp.close()
    except Exception as e: