urllib on windows machines

[william at opensource4you.com]

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_compiler()
>      'MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)'
>      >>> platform.python_build()
>      (67, 'Sep 28 2005 12:41:11')
>

>>> import platform
>>> platform.platform()
'Windows-XP-5.1.2600'
>>> platform.architecture()
('32bit', 'WindowsPE')
>>> platform.python_version()
'2.4.2'
>>> platform.python_compiler()
'MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)'
>>> platform.python_build()
(67, 'Sep 28 2005 12:41:11')


> 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: (1898)
Destination: 67.18.1.164: http(80)"

But why the "telnet www.google.com 80" is wroking ?
Why Firefox is running ?

Thanks.



William