using urlretrive/urlopen

Fri May 15 11:03:09 EDT 2009

I am trying to talk to a server that runs on localhost
The server runs on http://localhost:7000/ and that opens alright in  a
web browser.

However if I use urlopen or urlretrieve what I get is this 'file' --
obviously not the one that the browser gets:

<html><body bgcolor="#ffffff">
Query 'http://localhost:7000/' not implemented
</body></html>
Any tips/clues?

This is python2.6