From ae538cbb3ff31f4fe23e5929c8607c8848370a78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean-Marie Burel <j.burel@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:50:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] connect to IDR

---
 connect.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 connect.py

diff --git a/connect.py b/connect.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c7b4d9f8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/connect.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import sys
+from omero.gateway import BlitzGateway
+HOST = 'ws://idr.openmicroscopy.org/omero-ws'
+conn = BlitzGateway('public', 'public',
+                    host=HOST, secure=True)
+if conn.connect() is True:
+    print("connected")
+    conn.close()
+else:
+    print("Connection failed")
+sys.exit()