platform issues?

[Adrian Powell]

The curl & dig ideas were great, thanks. Turns out the machine's network was badly configured and that's probably what was causing this problem. Curiously firefox could browse these sites without any problem despite not having any proxy defined and it took the command line to reveal the issue.

Thank you for your help, this had been bugging us for days!

Adrian.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Redcat" [redcat at catfolks.net]
Date: 12/01/2011 02:05 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: platform issues?

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:43:38 -0500, Adrian Powell wrote:

> Since I'm actually trying to write a twitter client, I was more focused
> on the results from twitter. Since google and twitter are so huge and so
> distributed, I'd bet neither are good tests for this, but they look
> approximately right.
> 
> Are there better ways to test if our network setup is good? At least
> that would be a relatively easy thing to fix.

I think I'd first try "dig www.google.com" to be sure that it is 
resolving, then I believe I'd try to fetch the URL from your code sample 
using cUrl. If both of those work then I'm not sure what I'd look at next.

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