Oh, by the way! To make this more interesting :-/ I saw this behavior on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) using Python 2.7.6 if I do the same exercise on a Mac OS X machine also with Python 2.7.6 - no problem what so ever.
> 25 okt 2014 kl. 08:40 skrev Roland Hedberg <roland.hedb...@umu.se>: > > When I try to access a URL using requests I always get: > socket.error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer > > If I try to access the same URL using curl I get no error message instead I > get the page. > The same result if I use a web browser like Safari. > > But, if I use python httplib I also get Errno 104. > > What gives ? > > Oh, by the way it’s a HTTPS url. > > — Roland > > ”Being able to think like a child is an important attribute of being an > adult” - Eddie Izzard > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list — Roland ”Being able to think like a child is an important attribute of being an adult” - Eddie Izzard -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list