I have a Python2 program which runs fine on Windows 7, but crashes on Windows 2008 Server R2 64 bit:
downloading http://fex.belwue.de/download/7za.exe Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1992, in <module> File "<string>", line 180, in main File "<string>", line 329, in get_ID File "<string>", line 1627, in check_7z File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 431, in open File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 449, in _open File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 409, in _call_chain File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 1227, in http_open File "C:\Software\Python\lib\urllib2.py", line 1200, in do_open File "C:\Software\Python\lib\httplib.py", line 1132, in getresponse File "C:\Software\Python\lib\httplib.py", line 485, in begin File "C:\Software\Python\lib\mimetools.py", line 25, in __init__ File "C:\Software\Python\lib\rfc822.py", line 108, in __init__ File "C:\Software\Python\lib\httplib.py", line 319, in readheaders File "C:\Software\Python\lib\socket.py", line 480, in readline error: [Errno 10054] Eine vorhandene Verbindung wurde vom Remotehost geschlossen This is the function where the error happens: if python2: import urllib2 as urllib if python3: import urllib.request as urllib def check_7z(): global sz sz = path.join(fexhome,'7za.exe') szurl = "http://fex.belwue.de/download/7za.exe" if not path.exists(sz) or path.getsize(sz) < 9999: try: szo = open(sz,'wb') except (IOError,OSError) as e: die('cannot write %s - %s' % (sz,e.strerror)) printf("\ndownloading %s\n",szurl) try: req = urllib.Request(szurl) req.add_header('User-Agent',useragent) u = urllib.urlopen(req) # line 1627 # except urllib.URLError as e: die('cannot get %s - %s' % (szurl,e.reason)) except urllib.HTTPError as e: die('cannot get %s - server reply: %d %s' % (szurl,e.code,e.reason)) if u.getcode() == 200: copy_file_obj(u,szo) szo.close() else: die('cannot get %s - server reply: %d' % (szurl,u.getcode())) The curious thing is: the download was successful, the file 7za.exe is there in the local directory! -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list