'Obtain telemetry from a host running the swift recon middleware.
:param host: host to check
:returns: tuple of (recon url used, response body, status, time start
and time end)'

def scout(self, host):

    base_url = ('http://%s:%s/recon/' % (host[0], host[1]))
    ts_start = time.time()
    (url, content, status) = self.scout_host(base_url, self.recon_type)
    ts_end = time.time()
    return (url, content, status, ts_start, ts_end)
