socket.error connection refused

Fri Nov 24 07:33:47 EST 2006

Thanks for the explanation.
Probably the fact that I was working inside a virtual machine
didn't help.

Vania

robert ha scritto:

> Vania wrote:
> > Hi, I'm not sure this is the proper forum but I try nevertheless.
> > The problem I'am facing is that the socket library always fail to
> > connect to an URL. The net effect is that I can not use setuptools.
> > I'm using Python2.4 on a windows XPPRO Sp2 machine.
> > The firewall is disabled.
> > There is no NLTM proxy.
> > I connect to the internet through a NAT server (and it works).
> > Other than with easy_install I tried to connect to a number of external
> > urls
> > (all of them running) and even to localhost,
> > directly in script using urllib
> > and the error is always the same errno:  10061 connection refused.
> > Any ideas?
>
>
> urllib.urlopen can pick up an invalid proxy setting from environ or IE-settings.
>
> routers/NAT servers sometimes need a 2nd tick - all browsers try it 2..4 times before displaying "no connection" - this is (unfortunately) not the default behavior of the "browser" urllib.
>
> if bare
>
> >>> import httplib
> >>> h=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.google.com')
> >>> h.connect()
> >>> h.request('GET','/')
> >>> h.getresponse().read()
> '<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">\n<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>\n<H1>302 Moved</H1>\nThe document has moved\n<A HREF="http://www.google.de/">here</A>.\r\n</BODY></HTML>\r\n'
> >>>
>
> fails on multiple trials, then you have a very strange network setup. maybe multiple/confusing NIC's ...
> 
> 
> Robert