https post request

[Travis Altman]

i'm trying to make a https post request, i'm following the example linked
below.

http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Python/0420__Network/SendinganHTTPPOSTRequestfromaPythonScript.htm

i'm trying to make the https post request to netflix.com, below is my code

  1 import httplib
  2
  3 # def statement used to parse response from web server
  4 def printText(txt):
  5         lines = txt.split('\n')
  6         for lines in lines:
  7                 print line.strip()
  8
  9 # connect to web server
 10 httpServ = httplib.HTTPSConnection("https://www.netflix.com", 443)
 11 print httpServ
 12 httpServ.connect()
 13
 14 # specifying the exact login URL
 15
 16 request = "test"
 17
 18 httpServ.request('POST', \
 19 '/Login', \
 20 'nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netflix.com
%2F&SubmitButton=Click+Here+to+Continue&movieid=&trkid=&email=email%
40gmail.com&password1=supersecret % request')
 21
 22 # response
 23
 24 response = httpServ.getresponse()
 25
 26 print response
 27 if response.status == httplib.OK:
 28         printText (response.read())
 29
 30 httpServ.close()

getting the following errors, any suggestions?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "printerPythonScript.py", line 12, in <module>
    httpServ.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 1130, in connect
    sock.connect((self.host, self.port))
  File "<string>", line 1, in connect
socket.gaierror: (-5, 'No address associated with hostname')
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