Soemthing wrong w/ urllib module or something.

[Tim Golden]

[Tim Golden]
 >> To do the obvious, can you open a socket connection
 >> to the domain you're using?
 >>
 >> <code>
 >> from socket import socket
 >> socket ().connect (("DOMAINHERE", 80))
 >>
 >> </code>
 >>
 >> or does it give you the same error?

[Lamonte Harris]
> Yeah I basically got the same error.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "<string>", line 1, in connect
> socket.error: (10053, 'Software caused connection abort')

OK, then *something's* blocking access to that host (at least)
on port 80. Can you browse the web normally from this machine?
In particular, can you browse to that site ("DOMAINHERE")?

TJG