urllib on windows machines

2005-12-03 Thread william
I've got a strange problem on windows (not very familiar with that OS). I can ping a host, but cannot get it via urllib (see here under). I can even telnet the host on port 80. Thus network seems good, but not for python ;-(. Does any windows specialist can guide me (a poor linux user) to get Ne

Re: urllib on windows machines

2005-12-03 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a strange problem on windows (not very familiar with that OS). > I can ping a host, but cannot get it via urllib (see here under). > Thus network seems good, but not for python ;-(. > > Does any windows specialist can guide me (a poor linux user) to get > N

Re: urllib on windows machines

2005-12-03 Thread william
Thanks Scott > > This part I can help you with: > >>> import platform > >>> platform.platform() > 'Windows-2000-5.0.2195-SP4' # in my case > >>> platform.architecture() > ('32bit', 'WindowsPE') > >>> platform.python_version() > '2.4.2' > >>> platform.python

Re: urllib on windows machines

2005-12-03 Thread Scott David Daniels
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... [I said] >> So off-hand, I'd suspect some firewall thingie is getting in the way. >> Can you "bless" \Python24\python.exe and \Python24\pythonw.exe as >> applications allowed to do net traffic? > > Bingo! > That's the problem: "Blocked outgoing TCP - Source Local

Re: urllib on windows machines

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got a strange problem on windows (not very familiar with that OS). > > I can ping a host, but cannot get it via urllib (see here under). > I can even telnet the host on port 80. > > Thus network seems good, but not for python ;-(. > > Does any windows specialist c