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So I have a pretty basic python script that I'm trying to use to retrieve information from a website. I know this code is correct because it runs just fine on my home PC, but not on my company's PC.

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.website.com/')

Every time I run the script, it just hangs for a couple minutes, until it eventually throws the following error:

IOError: [Errno socket 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

After searching other posts, I found that similar problems were proxy related issues. I checked my PC's network settings to see if I could find a proxy address and found that my company set up a automatic configuration script. I followed the link and downloaded the script, and I think I found which proxy I should use. I edited my code according to another post on how to include a proxy. See below:

import urllib2
proxy = urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http': 'proxy1.companywebsite.com:80'})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
response = urllib2.urlopen('https://www.website.com/')

When I run this, it still hangs and throws an error:

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>

If anybody has any ideas on why this isn't working, I'd greatly appreciate it. I've spent hours trying to figure this out.

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  • Seems to be a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5620263/using-an-http-proxy-python . – Mike Bessonov Apr 29 '16 at 18:01
  • You have written urllib2.open instead of urllib2.urlopen but i guess it is not the real problem is it? – PyEldar Apr 29 '16 at 18:31
  • @PyProgrammer yes that was a mistake in me copying the code. definitely not the cause – user3705267 Apr 29 '16 at 18:41
  • Yeah, just making sure .... it would throw different error – PyEldar Apr 29 '16 at 18:47
  • I would use requests module to handle those things so u can try.... http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/ usage with proxy is:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8287628/proxies-with-python-requests-module – PyEldar Apr 29 '16 at 21:02

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