loading a url using urllib2

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I have the following code to load a url (address).

When I have a url like this,

http://www.testcom.co.uk/dev_12345/www.cnn.com

i get an error "Failed to open http://www.testcom.co.uk/dev_12345/www.cnn.com".
Is there something wrong with my URL? or something wrong with my code?

Thank you for any help.

cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar()

  opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
    urllib2.install_opener(opener)


    txheaders = {'User-agent': 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows NT)'}
    try:
        print "address", address
        print "txdata", txdata
        print "txheaders", txheaders
        req = Request(address, txdata, txheaders)
        handle = urlopen(req)
    except IOError, e:
        print address
        print 'Failed to open %s' % address
        data = ""