Python URLError urlopen error Errno 10060

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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    gt  Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt pyshell 27 gt    line 1  in  gt   lt module gt   gt      r   urllib2 urlopen o    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 126  in urlopen  gt      return  opener open url  data  timeout    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 400  in open  gt      response   self  open req  data    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 418  in  open  gt        open   req    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 378  in  call chain  gt      result   func  args    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 1207  in http open  gt      return self do open httplib HTTPConnection  req    File  C  Python27 lib urllib2 py   line 1177  in do open  gt      raise URLError err  URLError   lt urlopen error  Errno 10060  A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly  gt  respond after a period of time  or established connection failed  gt  because connected host has failed to respond gt    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

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This is because of the proxy settings  I also had the same problem  under which I could not use any of the modules which were fetching data from the internet  There are simple steps to follow  1  open the control panel 2  open internet options 3  under connection tab open LAN settings  4  go to advance settings and unmark everything  delete every proxy in there  Or u can just unmark the checkbox in proxy server this will also do the same 5  save all the settings by clicking ok  you are done  try to run the programme again  it must work it worked for me at least

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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  39 t I get Python  39 s urlopen   method to work on Windows   Hope it helps

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Answer  Basic is advance     Error  10060 Adding a timeout parameter to request solved the issue for me    Example 1  import urllib import urllib2 g    http   www google com   read   urllib2 urlopen g  timeout 20    Example 2  A similar error also occurred while I was making a GET request  Again  passing a timeout parameter solved the 10060 Error   response   requests get param url  timeout 20

[python] Python: URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10060]

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