Hi rishi, Thanks for ur reply, yes i set the following enviroment variables (FC6 platform) http_proxy,http_user,http_password
But i get the same error; Can u tell me which other variables i need to set or am i going wrong in the syntax of these variables? Regards sv On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:57 AM, rishi pathak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Are you sitting behind a proxy. If so then you have to set proxy for http > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, svalbard colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> I have written a small code snippet to open a URL using urllib2 to open a >> web page , my python version is 2.4 but i get an urlopen error called >> connection timed out >> >> The following is the code snippet >> >> *import urllib2 >> >> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com/') >> print f.read(100)* >> >> >> where as the same url http://www.google.com/ works through my browser. >> >> The following is the back trace : >> >> File "test_url.py", line 3, in ? >> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com/') >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen >> return _opener.open(url, data) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open >> response = self._open(req, data) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open >> '_open', req) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain >> result = func(*args) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1021, in http_open >> return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 996, in do_open >> raise URLError(err) >> *urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out*')> >> >> >> Any pointers in this regard will be of great help. >> >> Thanking you'll in advance. >> >> Regards, >> sv >> >> >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> > > > -- > Regards-- > Rishi Pathak > Pune-Maharastra >
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