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Asked: 2026-06-02T12:31:21+00:00

Using urllib2 and trying to get an https page, it keeps failing with Invalid

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Using urllib2 and trying to get an https page, it keeps failing with

Invalid url, unable to resolve

The url is
https://www.domainsbyproxy.com/default.aspx
but I have this happening on multiple https sites.

I am using python 2.7, and below is the code I am using to setup the connection

opener = urllib2.OpenerDirector()
opener.add_handler(urllib2.HTTPHandler())
opener.add_handler(urllib2.HTTPDefaultErrorHandler())
opener.addheaders = [('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')]
fetch_timeout = 12
response = opener.open(url, None, fetch_timeout)

The reason I am setting handlers manually is because I don’t want redirects handled (which works fine). The above works fine for http requests, however https – fails.

Any clues?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should be using HTTPSHandler instead of HTTPHandler

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