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Try the following code:
import urllib2
gmail = urllib2.urlopen("https://www.gmail.com").read()
wikispaces = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.wikispaces.com").read()
Getting the html over HTTPS from gmail.com works, but not over HTTP from
wikispaces. Here's the traceback:
>>> wikispaces = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.wikispaces.com").read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
 return _opener.open(url, data)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 380, in open
 response = meth(req, response)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 491, in http_response
 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 412, in error
 result = self._call_chain(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
 result = func(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 575, in http_error_302
 return self.parent.open(new)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 380, in open
 response = meth(req, response)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 491, in http_response
 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 412, in error
 result = self._call_chain(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
 result = func(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 575, in http_error_302
 return self.parent.open(new)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 374, in open
 response = self._open(req, data)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 392, in _open
 '_open', req)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
 result = func(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1100, in http_open
 return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1075, in do_open
 raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (104, 'Connection reset by peer')>
Note the two 302 redirects.
I tried accessing wikispaces.com with SSL turned off in Firefox
2.0.0.12, which didn't work because SSL was required, perhaps in between
the redirects that wikispaces uses.
Why doesn't urllib2 handle the "hidden" SSL properly? (Not to be rude,
but httplib2 works.)
Thanks!
WJ