There shouldn't be a difference between urllib and urllib2 in this case. And it used to work with urllib up to yesterday, so it's likely a bug.
I didn't file a bug report, looked at the issue tracker and there are hundreds of open issues. Not sure if anyone looks at it. Waleed On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:40 AM, lnetanel <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm also having the same issue, the urllib2 solved it for me as well. > Is there any difference between urllib and urllib2? > > did someone filed a bug on this issue? > > On Mar 29, 10:46 am, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> wrote: > > Attempting to find a work-around, I changed my code from: > > > > file = urllib.urlopen(url, params) > > > > to: > > > > file = urllib2.urlopen(url, params) > > > > And that fixed it. In other words, starting today, urllib doesn't support > > fetching https domains anymore, which is likely a bug. > > > > Waleed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Waleed Abdulla <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'm noticing these errors in my logs when trying to connect to the > Facebook > > > APIs at http*s*://graph.facebook.com/ . It seems to have started just > > > recently. Anyone else getting this? > > > > > File > "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.349332839833783691/lib/facebook.py", > line 233, in request > > > file = urllib.urlopen(url, params) > > > File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line > 84, in urlopen > > > return opener.open(url, data) > > > File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line > 187, in open > > > return self.open_unknown(fullurl, data) > > > File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line > 199, in open_unknown > > > raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type) > > > IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https' > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
