diff --git a/photon.py b/photon.py
index 455999e..ec4eeb9 100644
--- a/photon.py
+++ b/photon.py
@@ -175,8 +175,13 @@
     try:
         requests.get('https://' + main_inp, proxies=random.choice(proxies))
         main_url = 'https://' + main_inp
-    except:
-        main_url = 'http://' + main_inp
+    except requests.ConnectionError:
+        try:
+            requests.get('http://' + main_inp, proxies=random.choice(proxies))
+            main_url = 'http://' + main_inp
+        except requests.ConnectionError:
+            sys.stdout.write("Host not found.\n")
+            sys.exit(0)
 
 schema = main_url.split('//')[0] # https: or http:?
 # Adding the root URL to internal for crawling