Jay wrote: > Easy Fix... > > import urllib > the_url = "http://www.google.com"; > req = urllib.urlopen(the_url) > > Does this work for you??
This does look like proxie /firewall issue, try it from an internet cafe. Also depending on the site, you may have to set User-Agnet and/or referer headers. And definitely respect robots.txt, throttle back requests to seom finite (human-scale) volume and save them to your hard drive (mistakes i've made) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
