WinScoc error

[Chris Akre]

Go into Internet Explorer, and turn of the adult sex site filter.  That
should solve the winsock errors you are getting.

<just kidding>

Chris

"Werner Geuens" <werner.geuens2 at pandora.be> wrote in message
news:iMrE5.76442$nQ2.1382027 at afrodite.telenet-ops.be...
> Jut ran into an error, using urllib from Windows.
>
> Here's what I tested:
>
> import urllib
> urllib.urlretrieve('http://www.jennicam.org/guests/cam.jpg','test.jpg')
>
> That kind of thing works just fine under OS/2 and - I supppose - Linux.
But
> not under Windows.
>
> This is the error message I get:
> IOError: [Errno socket error] (10060, 'winsock error')
>
> I'm using 1.5.2 under Windows, OS/2 and Linux S.U.S.E. Seems only Windows
> would have this problem, but is there a solution?
>
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> werner.geuens2 at pandora.be
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