socket.gaierror from httplib

[spamsink42]

this code

h=httplib.HTTPConnection('euronext.com')
h.request('GET',
'http://www.euronext.com/home/0,3766,1732,00.html')

fails with this message

File "httplib.py", line 532, in connect
socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

what am i doing wrong?

thanks
eric

[Steve Holden]

sp********@gmail.com wrote:

this code

h=httplib.HTTPConnection('euronext.com')
h.request('GET',
'http://www.euronext.com/home/0,3766,1732,00.html')

fails with this message

File "httplib.py", line 532, in connect
socket.SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')

what am i doing wrong?

thanks
eric

The HTTPConnection specifies the server you are connection to (you only
give to domain, which isn't guaranteed to resolve to the same IP
address, or indeed even any IP address).

Having connected, all you need to present in the request() method call
is the HTTP method and the URI relative to the server. This works for me:

import httplib; h=httplib.HTTPConnection('www.euronext.com')
h.request('GET','/home/0,3766,1732,00.html')

regards
Steve
--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]
Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/

[spamsink42]

fantastic. many thanks.

regards,
eric