A problem while using urllib

[Steve Holden]

Johnny Lee wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
>>Steve Holden wrote:
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>>>Johnny Lee wrote:
[...]
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>>So my conclusion is that there's something in the Cygwin socket module
>>that causes problems not seen under other platforms.
>>
>>I couldn't find any obviously-related error in the Python bug tracker,
>>and I have copied this message to the Cygwin list in case someone there
>>knows what the problem is.
>>
>>Before making any kind of bug submission you should really see if you
>>can build a program shorter that the existing 220+ lines to demonstrate
>>the bug, but it does look to me like your program should work (as indeed
>>it does on other platforms).
>>
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> 
> 
> But if you change urllib2 to urllib, it works under cygwin. Are they
> using different mechanism to connect to the page?
> 
I haven't looked into it that deeply. Perhaps you can take a look at the 
library code to see what the differences are?

regards
  Steve
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