urllib timeout

[MRAB]

kBob wrote:
> 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
> 
It should be like this:

SAT_URL = 
"http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
SAT_FILE = r"C:\latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
urllib.urlretrieve(SAT_URL, SAT_FILE)