Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060]

Question

OS: Windows 7; Python 2.7.3 using the Python GUI Shell

I'm trying to read a website through Python, and several authors use the urllib and urllib2 libraries. To store the site in a variable, I've seen a similar approach proposed:

import urllib
import urllib2
g = "http://www.google.com/"
read = urllib2.urlopen(g)

The last line generates an error after a 120+ seconds:

> Traceback (most recent call last):   File "<pyshell#27>", line 1, in
> <module>
>     r = urllib2.urlopen(o)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 400, in open
>     response = self._open(req, data)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
>     '_open', req)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
>     result = func(*args)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 1207, in http_open
>     return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)   File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 1177, in do_open
>     raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly
> respond after a period of time, or established connection failed
> because connected host has failed to respond>

I tried bypassing the g variable and trying to urlopen("http://www.google.com/") with no success either (it generates the same error after the same length of time).

Answer 1

The error code 10060 means it cannot connect to the remote peer. It might be because of the network problem or mostly your setting issues, such as proxy setting.

You could try to connect the same host with other tools(such as ncat) and/or with another PC within your same local network to find out where the problem is occuring.

For proxy issue, there are some material here:

Using an HTTP PROXY - Python

Why can't I get Python's urlopen() method to work on Windows?

Hope it helps!