urllib timeout

kBob krdean at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 12:30:26 EDT 2010


On Jul 28, 9:11 am, kBob <krd... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 4:56 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
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> > kBob wrote:
> > > On Jul 27, 4:23 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> > >> kBob wrote:
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> > >>>  I created a script to access weather satellite imagery fron NOAA's
> > >>> ADDS.
> > >>>  It worked fine until recently with Python 2.6.
> > >>>  The company changed the Internet LAN connections to "Accept Automatic
> > >>> settings" and "Use automatic configuration script"
> > >>>  How do you get urllib.urlopen to use the the "automatic script"
> > >>> configuration?
> > >>>  This code worked recently, until the company implemented these LAN
> > >>> connections...
> > >>>     SAT_URL = "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/
> > >>> latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> > >>>     satpic = urllib.urlopen(SAT_URL, proxies=0 )
> > >>>     satimg = satpic.read()
> > >> For the record, I got:
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> > >>  >>> import urllib
> > >>  >>> SAT_URL =
> > >> "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> > >>  >>> satpic = urllib.urlopen(SAT_URL, proxies=0 )
> > >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
> > >>      opener = FancyURLopener(proxies=proxies)
> > >>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 617, in __init__
> > >>      URLopener.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
> > >>    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib.py", line 129, in __init__
> > >>      assert hasattr(proxies, 'has_key'), "proxies must be a mapping"
> > >> AssertionError: proxies must be a mapping
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> > >> However, urllib.urlretrieve(...) works.- Hide quoted text -
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> > >> - Show quoted text -
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> > > I saw that, but I still get the same error time out error ...
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> > >>>> import urllib
> > >>>> SAT_URL = "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/"
> > >>>> SAT_FILE = "latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> > >>>> satimg = urllib.urlretrieve( SAT_URL, SAT_FILE )
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 93, in urlretrieve
> > >     return _urlopener.retrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 237, in retrieve
> > >     fp = self.open(url, data)
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 205, in open
> > >     return getattr(self, name)(url)
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\urllib.py", line 344, in open_http
> > >     h.endheaders()
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 904, in endheaders
> > >     self._send_output()
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 776, in _send_output
> > >     self.send(msg)
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 735, in send
> > >     self.connect()
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\httplib.py", line 716, in connect
> > >     self.timeout)
> > >   File "c:\python26\lib\socket.py", line 514, in create_connection
> > >     raise error, msg
> > > IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 10060] A connection attempt
> > > failed because
> > > the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time,
> > > or establis
> > > hed connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
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> > It should be like this:
>
> > SAT_URL =
> > "http://adds.aviationweather.gov/data/satellite/latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> > SAT_FILE = r"C:\latest_BWI_vis.jpg"
> > urllib.urlretrieve(SAT_URL, SAT_FILE)- Hide quoted text -
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> > - Show quoted text -
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> It doesn't matter, the same error 10060 appears .
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> The connection problem has to do with the proxy settings.
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>  In order for me to use Internet Explorer, the LAN's Automatic
> configuration must be turned on and use a script found on the
> company's proxy server. I was wondering how to get urllib.urlopen to
> access the script on the proxy server.
>
> Thanks for your help.
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> Kelly- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

OK, looks like I need to start a new thread.....

  How to get urllib to work with a Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol
(WPAD)?

Kelly



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