Can't Access ANY url from python (errno 61)

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:48 PM, MattB <mattbarkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been working on a program that accesses my school's password
> protected website and downloads directory names. I'm using mechanize.
>
> Recently, the program has been unable to open the website, returning
> the 'errno 61 connection refused' error. I presume the school's server
> was blocking me because of many automated logins.
>
> However, it turns out that I cannot now open ANY url from within
> Python on my computer using mechanize (or urllib for that matter).
> And I've tried in several places -- my place, a friend's place (who
> also has comcast as an ISP) and the school -- but no dice, constant
> errno 61's whenever I try to open a url.
>
> The strangest thing about this is that firefox still works flawlessly
> on any site.
>
> However, at my friend's place, I was able to open url's from HIS
> computer, no problem.
>
> Can anyone think of anything I can do to solve this problem? Why would
> firefox be working fine but not Python?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>

Are you running behind a firewall? See if Firefox is configured with a
proxy. You'll have to use that to talk to any website.

-- 
Jonathan Gardner
jgardner at jonathangardner.net