#!/usr/bin/python

from datetime import datetime
import base64
import hmac
import httplib
import sha

ACCESS_KEY_ID="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

# Generate the HMAC signature.
date=datetime.utcnow().strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT")
request="/"+ACCESS_KEY_ID+"/status"
clearText="GET\n"+ACCESS_KEY_ID+"\n"+date+"\n"+request
signature=base64.encodestring(hmac.new(SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,clearText,sha).digest()).strip()

# Request the status from PDF Alchemy.
conn=httplib.HTTPConnection("www.pdfalchemy.com")
headers={"date":date, "X-PDF-Alchemy-Signature":signature}
conn.request("GET",request,None,headers)
resp = conn.getresponse()
if resp.status >= 300:
  print str(resp.status)+": "+resp.reason+":",
print resp.read()
conn.close()