Re:

2009-09-11 Thread opengis
Thank you for the response.  I have been using 
urllib2.urlopen("http://www.openlayers.org";), so I can rule out the 
url being incorrect.  Since my original question I can add the 
following:

1. I am not using a proxy to connect to the internet
2. I added these lines to the script:
 ...
 proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
 opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
 urllib2.install_opener(opener)
 ...
   I believe this tells python not to look for a proxy server.
3. I have added http://www.openlayers.org and its ip to my windows 
hosts file
4. socket.gethostbyname produces the same 11001 error as 
urllib2.urlopen

You are spot-on suggesting a dns issue.  It seems like python 
cannot resolve hostnames when it is running in Tomcat 6.  Here is 
my Tomcat cgi config from web.xml:


cgi
org.apache.catalina.servlets.CGIServlet

debug
0


cgiPathPrefix
WEB-INF/cgi


executable
C:/Program 
Files/Python25/python.exe


passShellEnviroment
true

5



cgi
/cgi-bin/*


The hostnames consistently resolve in Apache Server with the same 
script, so I don't think my dns config is wrong.  I don't have a 
local firewall, but could my network firewall be blocking python 
from takin care of business?  Can anyone share their experience or 
a link on running python in Tomcat?  

thanks again,
josh

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:54:20 -0500 Chris Withers 
 wrote:
>open...@hushmail.com wrote:
>> fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
>> url = fs.getvalue('url', "http://www.openlayers.org";)
>> try:
>
>insert a "print url" here...
>
>> y = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>> print y.read()
>
>> This script produces the "> failed')>". 
>
>This is a name lookup failing, whatever you're ending up with in 
>url is 
>either incorrect or the dns config of the server it's pointing at 
>is 
>incorrect...
>
>Chris
>
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2009-09-10 Thread opengis
Hello Python User,
I am using python in an openlayers application to access another 
server on my network via javascript.  The proxy script works fine 
when the application runs in Apache HTTP Server, but I get a 
"" error after moving 
the application to Tomcat.  The tomcat cgi configuration tested 
fine with a "hello world" python script.  I then boiled my proxy 
script down to the following:

#!c:/Program Files/Python25/python.exe -u

import urllib2
import cgi

fs = cgi.FieldStorage()
url = fs.getvalue('url', "http://www.openlayers.org";)
try:
y = urllib2.urlopen(url)
print y.read()

except Exception, E:
print "Status: 500 Unexpected Error"
print "Content-Type: text/plain"
print 
print "url: ", url
print 
print "Some unexpected error occurred. Error text was:", E

This script produces the "".  The openlayers homepage is expected.  My environment 
is Tomcat 6, Apache 2, Win XP, and Python 2.5.  I have my local 
firewall turned off.  Proxy support is enabled, and working, in 
Apache 2.0 (I get the error with Apache Server stopped). I seem to 
be missing something to facilitate the communication between 
python, my network and tomcat.  Any direction or solution is 
greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Josh

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