urllib timeout

[kBob]

On Jul 27, 4:23 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> kBob wrote:
>
> >  I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's
> > ADDS.
>
> >  It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6.
>
> >  The company changed the Internet LAN connections to "Accept Automatic
> > settings" and "Use automatic configuration script"
>
> >  How do you get urllib.urlopen to use the the "automatic script"
> > configuration?
>
> >  This code worked recently, until the company implemented these LAN
> > connections...
>
> >     SAT_URL = "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/
> > latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> >     satpic = urllib.urlopen(SAT_URL, proxies=0 )
> >     satimg = satpic.read()
>
> For the record, I got:
>
>  >>> import urllib
>  >>> SAT_URL =
> "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
>  >>> satpic = urllib.urlopen(SAT_URL, proxies=0 )
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
>      opener = FancyURLopener(proxies=proxies)
>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 617, in __init__
>      URLopener.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 129, in __init__
>      assert hasattr(proxies, 'has_key'), "proxies must be a mapping"
> AssertionError: proxies must be a mapping
>
> However, urllib.urlretrieve(...) works.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I saw that, but I still get the same error time out error ...

>>> import urllib
>>> SAT_URL = "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/"
>>> SAT_FILE = "latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
>>> satimg = urllib.urlretrieve( SAT_URL, SAT_FILE )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
    return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
  File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 237, in retrieve
    fp = self.open(url, data)
  File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 205, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 344, in open_http
    h.endheaders()
  File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 904, in endheaders
    self._send_output()
  File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 776, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 735, in send
    self.connect()
  File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 716, in connect
    self.timeout)
  File "c:\python26\lib\socket.py", line 514, in create_connection
    raise error, msg
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 10060] A connection attempt
failed because
the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time,
or establis
hed connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Kelly