The pythonw.exe may not have the rights to access network resources.
I have added pythonw.exe to allowed exceptions. Disabled firewall completely. Set socket timeout to 10 seconds. Still nothing.Have you set a default timeout for sockets?import socket socket.setdefaulttimeout(10) # 10 seconds
urllib.urlretrieve does not return from call.... any other ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list