On Sep 24, 11:46 am, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using the following code for over a year in one of my > programs: > > f = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.companywebsite.com/somestring') > > It worked great until the middle of the afternoon yesterday. Now I get > the following traceback: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<pyshell#13>", line 1, in <module> > response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read().strip() > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen > return _opener.open(url, data) > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 381, in open > response = self._open(req, data) > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 399, in _open > '_open', req) > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain > result = func(*args) > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1115, in https_open > return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req) > File "c:\python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1082, in do_open > raise URLError(err) > URLError: <urlopen error (1, 'error:140770FC:SSL > routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol')> > > I tried my Google Fu on this error, but there's not much out there. I > tried using a proxy in Python, but that returned the same traceback. > If I copy the URL into my browser, it resolves correctly. Does anyone > have any advice on how to troubleshoot this error? > > I am using Python 2.5.2 on Windows XP. > > Thanks, > > Mike
Could it just be a misconfiguration at the other end? Can you open other https urls? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list