On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, MattB <mattbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > I've been working on a program that accesses my school's password > protected website and downloads directory names. I'm using mechanize. > > Recently, the program has been unable to open the website, returning > the 'errno 61 connection refused' error. I presume the school's server > was blocking me because of many automated logins. > > However, it turns out that I cannot now open ANY url from within > Python on my computer using mechanize (or urllib for that matter). > And I've tried in several places -- my place, a friend's place (who > also has comcast as an ISP) and the school -- but no dice, constant > errno 61's whenever I try to open a url. > > The strangest thing about this is that firefox still works flawlessly > on any site. <snip> > Can anyone think of anything I can do to solve this problem? Why would > firefox be working fine but not Python? > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Based on what you've said, it's possible the school may have blocked mechanize's User-Agent somehow. Try spoofing mechanize as Firefox by setting the string for the User-Agent header to that of Firefox. See the section "Changing the automatically-added headers (User-Agent)" on http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/doc.html for how to do that. To see what Firefox's User-Agent is, use http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ Cheers, Chris -- Disclaimer: This is not meant to in any way endorse violating AUPs. http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
