Help with gaierror: (7, 'getaddrinfo failed')

[Jeff Epler]

You're trying to resolve an address that doesn't exist.  For example,
this is what I get on my system when I try to resolve a bogus hostname:

>>> socket.gethostbyname("bogus.unpythonic.net")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.gpc.edu/~whitfie3:80")

The syntax of your URL is quite likely to be confusing things.  You
probably mean
    http://www.gpc.edu:80/~whitfie3

Jeff