Question

I encountered an error today while trying to retrieve an XML by sending a ‘GET’ HTTP request.

from httplib import HTTPConnection
import urllib

params = urllib.urlencode({'sK': 'test', 'sXML': 1})
httpCon = HTTPConnection("http://www.podnapisi.net",80)
httpCon.request('GET', '/en/ppodnapisi/search',params)
r1 = httpCon.getresponse()

and here is the error i got:

.....
File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

The XML that I am trying to retrieve HERE

How can I fix this error ?

Thanks in Advance …

Answer 1

No scheme (http://) in the HTTPConnection constructor:

httpCon = HTTPConnection("www.podnapisi.net",80)

It already knows it’s HTTP, it’s an HTTPConnection object 🙂