On 02/19/10 21:48, MattB 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.
Being a former school BOFH, I can assure you that if I was annoyed by
your 'misuse' I would have tracked you down and made you aware of it.
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.
As mentioned by Jonathan Gardener, this is most likely a proxy gateway.
The strangest thing about this is that firefox still works flawlessly
on any site.
Your system might have been centrally configure so that applications are
aware of the proxy, firefox probably has been piggybacking on those
settings (as it should). Most platforms can be made aware of a proxy by
a DHCP option send by the DHCP server (that is when you automatically
get an IP address).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Matt
Google a bit around how you can figure out (from inside your script)
whether your used platform has a proxy configured and how to use it with
your application.
Good luck!
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