On 4/2/06, Puneet Lakhina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> im trying to test urllib.urlopen function in python 2.4
>
> i do the following on the interpreter
>
> >>>import urllib
>
> >>>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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:80
>
>
>
sorry.. should have RTFM... problem solved urllib does not support proxy
authentication.. need to use urllib2
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