[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a strange problem on windows (not very familiar with that OS). > > I can ping a host, but cannot get it via urllib (see here under). > I can even telnet the host on port 80. > > Thus network seems good, but not for python ;-(. > > Does any windows specialist can guide me (a poor linux user) to get > Network functionalitiies with python on windows ? > > I'm runnning on Windows XP (sorry to not give more, I don't know the > equivalent of uname). > I'm using standard (msi) python-2.4.2 > > Thanks. > > > > test.py contains the following lines: > " > import urllib > g=urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com') > " > > > C:\Temp>python test.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test.py", line 2, in ? > g=urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com') > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\urllib.py", line 77, in urlopen > return opener.open(url) > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\urllib.py", line 185, in open > return getattr(self, name)(url) > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\urllib.py", line 308, in > open_http > h.endheaders() > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\httplib.py", line 795, in > endheaders > self._send_output() > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\httplib.py", line 676, in > _send_output > self.send(msg) > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\httplib.py", line 643, in send > self.connect() > File "c:\william\tools\python24\lib\httplib.py", line 627, in connect > raise socket.error, msg > IOError: [Errno socket error] (10053, 'Software caused connection > abort') > > C:\Temp>ping www.google.com > > Pinging www.l.google.com [66.249.93.104] with 32 bytes of data: > > Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=246 > Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=246 > Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=246 > Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=246 > > Ping statistics for 66.249.93.104: > Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), > Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: > Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 22ms > Something is clearly wrong. here's *my* XP system connecting to Google:
C:\Steve>python Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib >>> f = urllib.urlopen('http://www.google.com') >>> len(f.read()) 2690 >>> I suspect you may have a firewall problem: you could need to tell your (XP Service Pack 2 personal) firewall it's OK for Python to make outbound network connections. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list