jlist wrote: > > I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know > ActiveState Python use IE proxy! > > > I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used > > to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused') > > for any site I try with urllib.urlopen(). >
switching to urllib2, installing the proxy opener, worked for me. here is the sample. variable names are self explanatory import urllib2 proxy=urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http":'http://'+proxyuser+':'+proxypass+'@'+httpproxy}) opener=urllib2.build_opener(proxy, urllib2.HTTPHandler) urllib2.install_opener(opener) req = urllib2.Request(url, form, headers) fd = urllib2.urlopen(req) print fd.code, fd.info(), fd.read() regards Edwin The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list