From ebe3b26f8a00c7e22b702f4d4a69a63e28d59d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Williams <andy@tensixtyone.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:46:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add in detection of refused connections to the API.

---
 eve_proxy/models.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/eve_proxy/models.py b/eve_proxy/models.py
index eb7201e..8263026 100755
--- a/eve_proxy/models.py
+++ b/eve_proxy/models.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import httplib
 import urllib
 import xml
 import hashlib
+import socket
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from xml.dom import minidom
 from django.db import models
@@ -47,7 +48,10 @@ class CachedDocumentManager(models.Manager):
             method = 'POST'
 
         headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
-        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(API_URL)
+        try:
+            conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(API_URL)
+        except socket.error:
+            return None
         conn.request(method, url_path, paramstr, headers)
         response = conn.getresponse()