if a start python in a command prompt terminal and try to open some url, I get the following result, despite the name being resolveable through DNS:
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup www.google.de Nicht-autorisierende Antwort: Name: www-cctld.l.google.com Address: 173.194.69.94 Aliases: www.google.de C:\Windows\system32>C:\Python27\python.exe Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import urllib >>> urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.de") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 84, in urlopen return opener.open(url) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 205, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 342, in open_http h.endheaders(data) File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 951, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 811, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 773, in send self.connect() File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 754, in connect self.timeout, self.source_address) File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 553, in create_connection for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM): IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed >>>
I disabled the firewall, started the command prompt as Administrator, but that’s pretty much all I can think of. nslookup works just fine, so I don't see what’s wrong. Any suggestions?