[Tutor] urlretrieve

[Mark A. Tobin]

Rob, thanks for your prompt reply. I don't have Netscape installed on that
system, however I took the advice anyway and checked the Internet Options
that IE5 employs.  Other than thinking it was connected using a LAN it was
setup fine.  All the proxy options were cleared.  Just to be safe I changed
the LAN to dialup and retested with the same result.  Do the options in
there affect how python connects to servers?  Wouldn't they affect IE5's
ability to grab the page as well?  Any other ideas?  I'm completely at a
loss...

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Andrews" <randrews@planhouse.com>
To: "'Mark A. Tobin'" <mtobin@bigfoot.com>; <tutor@python.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: RE: [Tutor] urlretrieve


> Are you using Netscape when you encounter the problem? If so, look under
> Edit>Preferences. I think that under this you will find Advanced>Proxies
and
> may find that it expects a proxy now for some reason. There are a number
of
> somewhat rare reasons this can happen. If it is the case, you can easily
> enough set it straight from there.
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tutor-admin@python.org [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
> Mark A. Tobin
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:32 AM
> To: tutor@python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] urlretrieve
>
>
> Hi again,
> first I want to thank everybody who helped explain the whole self thing as
> it has to do with classes, I think I'm slowly getting the idea.
> second I'm having a problem with urlretrieve() and I'm not even sure where
> the problem resides.  Maybe some of you python/windows people out there
> might be able to help.
> I'm running two systems both Win95, one runs 1.5.2, and one 2.0.  Both
> systems are similarly configured, at least as far as I know to look.  When
I
> do this:
> >>>from urllib import urlretrieve
> >>>urlretrieve("http://www.ihrg.com/nssnet/default.htm", "test.htm")
> ('test.htm', <mimetools.Message instance at 007EABDC>)
> it looks like it worked right?
> well on the system using 1.5.2 it does work, I get that webpage, intact,
> saved in the appropriate file.  However, on the other system (running
python
> 2.0) I get a webpage giving me a standard Proxy authorization required
> message instead of the page I'm looking for:
> Proxy authorization required
> Username authentication is required for using this proxy.  Either your
> browser does not perform proxy authorization, or your authorization has
> failed.
>
> I wondered whether it was that specific server so I tried with python.org
> and got the same message.
> Both systems use the same dialup ISP connection, and as far as I know
there
> certainly is no Proxy associated with either system.  I have never had to
do
> anything proxy associated during any setup process, and when I grab that
> file with IE5 it works like a charm.
>
> Any suggestions?  I wasn't really sure what info might be relevant, so I
may
> not have provided everything a diagnostician might need.  I don't even
> really know where to look....
>
> Looking for help (again... sigh),
>
> Mark
>
>
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