From ceef3652f78a08f737501377007447f382ff51ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "borja.sorazu" <borja.sorazu@glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:40:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] further work on capturing network exceptions

---
 detector_monitorv2.py | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/detector_monitorv2.py b/detector_monitorv2.py
index 2b7d4fd..66693e0 100644
--- a/detector_monitorv2.py
+++ b/detector_monitorv2.py
@@ -14,9 +14,12 @@ def statusdetect():
         r =requests.get(url) 
     except:
         print ('ERROR: Issues requesting website:  ' + url + '\n')
+        r=''
         pass
-
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,"lxml")
+    if hasattr(r, 'text'):
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,"lxml")
+    else:
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(r,"lxml")
     names = ['GEO 600','LIGO Hanford','LIGO Livingston','Virgo','KAGRA']
     detrows = []
     to_add=[]
-- 
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