HTTPError sometimes when using urllib2.urlopen

[Magnus.Moraberg]

Hi,

I have the following code -

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHa ndler({"http":" http://
999.999.999.999 :8080"})
opener = urllib2.build_o pener(proxy_sup port)
urllib2.install _opener(opener)

page = urllib2.urlopen ('http://www.cornish-language.org/CORNISH/
membership.asp' )
soup = BeautifulSoup(p age)

pageText = soup.findAll(te xt=True)
print pageText

Sometimes when I run this code I get the exception -

HTTPError: HTTP Error 407 Proxy authentication required

I seem to get this error repeatidly for a while, then I go a surf for
a moment and when I run the code again the exception might have gone
away. No idea why...

I have no problems with firefox which uses the same proxy. The proxy
requires no authentication. ..

What might the issue be?

Thanks,

Barry.

[Magnus.Moraberg]

On 27 Maj, 11:03, Magnus.Morab... @gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I have the following code -

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHa ndler({"http":" http://
999.999.999.999 :8080"})
opener = urllib2.build_o pener(proxy_sup port)
urllib2.install _opener(opener)

page = urllib2.urlopen ('http://www.cornish-language.org/CORNISH/
membership.asp' )
soup = BeautifulSoup(p age)

pageText = soup.findAll(te xt=True)
print pageText

Sometimes when I run this code I get the exception -

HTTPError: HTTP Error 407 Proxy authentication required

I seem to get this error repeatidly for a while, then I go a surf for
a moment and when I run the code again the exception might have gone
away. No idea why...

I have no problems with firefox which uses the same proxy. The proxy
requires no authentication. ..

What might the issue be?

Thanks,

Barry.

I'm running with Python 2.5 with PythonWin

Heres the full exception -

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python25\Li b\site-packages\python win\pywin\frame work
\scriptutils.py ", line 409, in ImportFile
reload(sys.modu les[modName])
File "C:\Documen ts and Settings\konbgn \Desktop\parse. py", line 8, in
<module>
page = urllib2.urlopen ('http://www.cornish-language.org/CORNISH/
membership.asp' )
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
return _opener.open(ur l, data)
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 380, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 491, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 418, in error
return self._call_chai n(*args)
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python25\li b\urllib2.py", line 499, in http_error_defa ult
raise HTTPError(req.g et_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required