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Dawn
Dawn

Reputation: 79

gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

I hope to access the text file from the following url:

http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/intro-short.txt

My code is 

import socket

socket.getaddrinfo('127.0.0.1', 8080)
mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
mysock.connect(('http://www.pythonlearn.com', 80))
mysock.send('GET http://www.pythonlearn.com/code/intro-short.txt HTTP/1.0\n\n')

I keep getting an error: gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

Can you help me with this?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 25643

Answers (1)

Gregory D. Weber
Gregory D. Weber

Reputation: 96

In mysock.connect(('http://www.pythonlearn.com', 80)), the first element in the tuple should be just the host name (or address), without 'http://'.

So mysock.connect(('www.pythonlearn.com', 80)) should work.

Incidentally, socket.getaddrinfo('127.0.0.1', 8080) would get the address information for your local host, not the server you want to contact; so this statement seems unnecessary.

Upvotes: 4

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