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Dave Stallberg
Dave Stallberg

Reputation: 1603

Python: gethostbyname error

I was coding a simple program in python that allows you to find the IP of the URL. I get this error:

File "wexec.py", line 40, in hell
  ipname = socket.gethostbyname('http://%s' % (hcon))
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

Now i'm not sure what I did wrong but here is my functions code:

def hell():

    hcon = raw_input(Fore.RED + Style.BRIGHT + "Website: ")
    h1 = httplib.HTTPConnection('http://%s:80' % (hcon))
    urlopen = urllib.urlopen('http://%s:80' % (hcon))   
    ipname = socket.gethostbyname('http://%s' % (hcon))
    print(strftime("[%H:%M:%S]", gmtime()) + " Found IP: %d " % (ipname))
    enter = raw_input("Press enter or any other key to continue.")

hell()

As you can see. I open a HTTP connection to the website and then I open the URL with urllibb and then I get the IP of the website. But as you can see, I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. Can someone help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5344

Answers (1)

peds
peds

Reputation: 156

socket.gethostbyname() only takes the domain name, so you need to drop the 'http://' from that call. I don't understand what calls to httplib and urllib are doing, but they seem unnecessary from this snippet.

Upvotes: 2

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