urllib fails to connect

[Edwin.Madari at VerizonWireless.com]

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().
> 

switching to urllib2, installing the proxy opener, worked for me. 
here is the sample. variable names are self explanatory

import urllib2
proxy=urllib2.ProxyHandler({"http":'http://'+proxyuser+':'+proxypass+'@'+httpproxy})
opener=urllib2.build_opener(proxy, urllib2.HTTPHandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
req = urllib2.Request(url, form, headers)
fd = urllib2.urlopen(req)
print fd.code, fd.info(), fd.read()

regards
Edwin


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