I tried using urllib2 and this is what i got: >>import urllib2 >>the_url = 'http://www.google.com' >>req = urllib2.Request(the_url) >>handle = urllib2.urlopen(req) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<input>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 358, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 376, in _open '_open', req) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1021, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 996, in do_open raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed')>
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