Thanks for the explanation. Probably the fact that I was working inside a virtual machine didn't help.
Vania robert ha scritto: > Vania 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? > > > urllib.urlopen can pick up an invalid proxy setting from environ or > IE-settings. > > routers/NAT servers sometimes need a 2nd tick - all browsers try it 2..4 > times before displaying "no connection" - this is (unfortunately) not the > default behavior of the "browser" urllib. > > if bare > > >>> import httplib > >>> h=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.google.com') > >>> h.connect() > >>> h.request('GET','/') > >>> h.getresponse().read() > '<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" > content="text/html;charset=utf-8">\n<TITLE>302 > Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>\n<H1>302 Moved</H1>\nThe document has moved\n<A > HREF="http://www.google.de/">here</A>.\r\n</BODY></HTML>\r\n' > >>> > > fails on multiple trials, then you have a very strange network setup. maybe > multiple/confusing NIC's ... > > > Robert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list