Error with python 3.3.2 and https

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:48 AM,  <asianavatar at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to write a program that requires me hitting a https web link. However, I can't seem to get it to work. The program works fine when dealing with http sites, however, when I try it with a https site I get
>
> socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
>
> It seems like it has something to do with the ssl not working, however, I do have the ssl.py in the python library and I have no problem importing it.
>
> My code is below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> import urllib.request
> auth = urllib.request.HTTPSHandler()
> proxy = urllib.request.ProxyHandler({'http':'my proxy'})
> opener = urllib.request.build_opener(proxy, auth)
> f = opener.open('http://www.google.ca/')

Check the name of your proxy; maybe you can't resolve it. Can you
identify your proxy by IP address?

By omitting the proxy part, I can quite happily make a direct request
using code like yours.

ChrisA