Python urlopen - Linuxers

1 Apr 2006


      im trying to test urllib.urlopen function in python 2.4
i do the following on the interpreter
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import urllib
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sock=urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 77, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 185, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 308, in open_http
    h.endheaders()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 795, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 676, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 643, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 611, in connect
    socket.SOCK_STREAM):
IOError: [Errno socket error] (-2, 'Name or service not known')
i have configured the http proxy by exporting the http_proxy variable
export http_proxy=http://username:password@my.proxy.address:80
any clues y this could be happening?? is it a problem with the proxy.. i
tried putting the same settings inside .wgetrc and that works fine
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Puneet