Hi, the reason I mentioned the socket is because that is where the error eventually occurs.
the code I tried manually (with different urls including a local one) is the following: import urllib fo=urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com") the error I get is: File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib.py", line 82, in urlopen return opener.open(url) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib.py", line 190, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "C:\Python24\lib\urllib.py", line 313, in open_http h.endheaders() File "C:\Python24\lib\httplib.py", line 798, in endheaders self._send_output() File "C:\Python24\lib\httplib.py", line 679, in _send_outp self.send(msg) File "C:\Python24\lib\httplib.py", line 646, in send self.connect() File "C:\Python24\lib\httplib.py", line 630, in connect raise socket.error, msg IOError: [Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused') Tim Williams ha scritto: > On 23 Nov 2006 04:09:18 -0800, Vania <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I'm not sure this is the proper forum but I try nevertheless. > > The problem I'am facing is that the socket library always fail to > > connect to an URL. The net effect is that I can not use setuptools. > > I'm using Python2.4 on a windows XPPRO Sp2 machine. > > The firewall is disabled. > > There is no NLTM proxy. > > I connect to the internet through a NAT server (and it works). > > Other than with easy_install I tried to connect to a number of external > > urls > > (all of them running) and even to localhost, > > directly in script using urllib > > and the error is always the same errno: 10061 connection refused. > > Any ideas? > > A socket can't connect to a URL, a URL is an absolute location of an > internet resource, eg hostname + (virtual) location on a server + page > name. A socket can connect to an IP address or hostname - which is > the first part of the URL after the "http://" (or ftp:// etc) > > You need to post a code snippet and the errors you are getting. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list