urllib fails to connect

Trent Mick trentm at activestate.com
Wed Aug 20 13:47:02 EDT 2008


jlist wrote:
> I found out why. I set a proxy in IE and I didn't know
> ActiveState Python use IE proxy!
> 
>> I'm running ActiveState Python 2.5 on Windows XP. It used
>> to work fine. Today however I get (10061, 'Connection refused')
>> for any site I try with urllib.urlopen().

Perhaps IE's proxy settings are effectively setting the Windows system 
networking proxy settings?

Trent

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