Rahul Sircar <devilsgri...@gmail.com> writes: > So I recently tried to write a script using urllib2 module. > Here is the code below: > import urllib2 > file = 'metasploitable-linux-2.0.0.zip' > url='https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/metasploitable/Metasploitable2/metasploitable-linux-2.0.0.zip' > response = urllib2.urlopen(url) > fh=open(file,'w') > fh.write(response.read()) > fh.close() > > I am getting this error in the output. > Traceback (most recent call last): > ... > v = self._sslobj.read(len) > socket.error: [Errno 10053] An established connection was aborted by the > software in your host machine.
This error tells you that the server (i.e. "downloads.sourcefourge.net") has closed the connection. This can happen occationally. Should the error persist, something may be wrong/special with your network/firewall. You may try an alternative way to download the file. On my "*nix" platform, I would use the command "wget" for a download trial. You could also try a browser. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
