[Python-Dev] possible urllib bug on Windows XP (original) (raw)

Shane Geiger sgeiger at ncee.net
Tue Apr 3 04:55:49 CEST 2007

I have a curious situation which might be a bug in urllib (Python 2.5 installed from a .msi file gotten from python.org) when running on Windows XP. (This is running inside a Parallels virtual machine, but I don't see how that matters, because, as you will see in a second, I'm able to access the Web server both by its IP address and name.

Here's a screenshot of a console session:

http://www.ncee.net/shane/urllib.png

You can see from the screenshot:

  1. This machine is able to ping the Web server's IP address.
  2. I can even access the Web server via the DNS name assigned (www.nce.net) using wget.exe (from UnxUtils).
  3. However, when I try to simulate wget.exe by using urllib, I get an error.

Here's the urllib command (which, incidentally works fine from my MacBook Pro): python -c "import urllib ; urllib.urlretrieve("http://www.ncee.net/shane/test.py","test.py")"

I tested this on a Windows 2000 Server, and urllib behaved normally.

Is this possibly a bug on Windows XP?

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