Istvan Albert wrote: > I remeber once I had truly puzzling problem that manifested itself the > same way ... Firefox and cygwin python would work fine but the windows > python would raise errors when trying to connect via http ... > > ... finally I realized that the day before IE was set to use a proxy > server ( to capture traffic for testing but the proxy was not on that > moment) ... I know little on how Windows works but it was quite a > surprise that setting IE to work some way had some unwanted > reprecussions somewhere else ...
See the documentation for urllib.urlopen: """ In a Windows environment, if no proxy environment variables are set, proxy settings are obtained from the registry's Internet Settings section. """ -- David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
