On Dec 1, 7:43 pm, Tim Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RajNewbie wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to connect to localhost via httplib, but it fails. > > To check whether it is a firewall problem etc, I tried to connect > > via urllib2, but it went through fine. > > Could some one help me out on this? I cannot use urllib2 in the > > > program because I have to send files via post to a url, and urllib2 > > doesn't support it (Python2.4) > > > Please see the code below: > > -->HTTPLIB<-- > > h = httplib.HTTPConnection("http://127.0.0.1:8000") > > h.request('GET', "/accounts/") > > res = h.getresponse() > > Which aspect of the documentation: > > http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html > > leads you to think that the first parameter to > httplib.HTTPConnection should be a URL? > > <dump>>>> import httplib > >>> httplib.HTTPConnection ("127.0.0.1") > > <httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x00AAB508>>>> httplib.HTTPConnection > ("localhost") > > <httplib.HTTPConnection instance at 0x00B40558> > > > > </dump> > > TJG
oops. My mistake. I am sorry to post such a braindead question here. I mistook the host for the url here. Sorry. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list