On 24 Feb, 22:14, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It likely tries to load the DTD in the background, which requires network > access. > > http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic
This is principally concerned with the standard library XML modules, not urllib/urllib2 specifically. See the bug report in the tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue2124 I'd imagine that it's more likely to be a DNS problem than anything else. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
