cron job times out

[Nikola Skoric]

Hello,

I have a few lines of code retrieving a web page and saving some 
variables from it to a log. And everything works nice from command line. 
but, when I make a cron job, I get an error:

Your "cron" job on fly
cd $HOME/bin/ ; python newartlog.py ; cd

produced the following output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "newartlog.py", line 11, in ?
    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 358, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 376, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 337, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 1021, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib2.py", line 996, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (145, 'Connection timed out')>

It seems that the connection timed out. But, every time I execute the 
script from the command line, everything goes fine. And every time he 
cron job triggers, it times out. How come?

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