urlopen error

[jii]

Hi,

I'm having a hard time figuring out what is wrong with this piece of code :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<window type="window" id="14000">
	<defaultcontrol always="false">100</defaultcontrol>
	<onload lang="python"><![CDATA[
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
import re
import urllib2

BASE_URL = "http://www.some-url.com"

contents = []

# Get the soup to work with.
response = urllib2.urlopen( BASE_URL )
soup = response.read()
response.close

...

I'm always having that error:

NOTICE: <urlopen error (61, 'Connection refused')>



Any clue?

[jii]

Hi all,

It seems the server I was trying to reach did'nt like the 'default http proxy of Boxee'.
I'm not 100% sure about that but still, here is the code I used to solve the problem :

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer
import urllib2

BASE_URL = "http://some-url.com"
	
# "Bypass" BOXEE proxy (if not we'll have error 61, 'connection refused')
proxy_support = urllib2.ProxyHandler({})
opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_support)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
	
# Fake user-agent to make sure the server let us in
user_agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)"
headers = { "User-Agent" : user_agent }
	
# Build a request
request = urllib2.Request( BASE_URL, {}, headers )
	
# Try to reach the server
try:
	response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
except IOError, e:
	if hasattr(e, 'reason'):
		print 'We failed to reach a server.'
		print 'Reason: ', e.reason
	elif hasattr(e, 'code'):
		print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request.'
		print 'Error code: ', e.code
		
		return None

# Everything went well
print response.read()
response.close

Voilà !

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/a....shtml#proxies

[xmcnuggetx]

I think for boxee apps you can use the Http class
http://developer.boxee.tv/Http_Class

[DPK]

Don't use urllib, use the Boxee API's Http class. It'll make your life easier and you won't have to code so many error checks. Plus utilizing the Http class automatically dumps any cookies being set by a remote server into Boxee's cookie jar.