Can not get urllib.urlopen to work

[Peter Hansen]

Pater Maximus wrote:
> I am trying to implement the recipe listed at
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/211886
> 
> However, I can not get to first base. When I try to run
> 
> import urllib
> fo=urllib.urlopen("http://www.dictionary.com/")
> page = fo.read()
> 
> I get:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\PROGRA~1\PYTHON\lib\httplib.py", line 548, in connect
>     raise socket.error, msg
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused')

Do you have any reason to think that this site is currently
hosting a web server?

Attempting to connect with IE or Telnet on port 80 results in
a similar response.

(Telnet is always a good thing to try, before posting about
server problems...)

-Peter