[Zope] Re: urlopen works outside Zope, not inside

31 Mar 2002

      Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> wrote:
...
Bill Bell writes:
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I have an External Method containing a reference to urlopen. The
procedure
that the Method represents works well when invoked from outside of
Zope. However, within Zope I get the 10061 socket error, "Connection
refused."
Help or advice, please.
Are you sure, it gets the same parameters?
"Connection refused" usually means, there is not server at the other
 end...
I am reasonably confident that this is true.

The following code runs successfully inside SciTE.

def getCount (  ):
    from urllib import urlopen, quote
    from string import find
    searchFor = 'Cobol'
    arg = r'http://jobsearch.monster.ca/jobsearch.asp?brd=1&cy=CA&lid=236&fn=6&fn=546&fn...' % ( quote ( searchFor), )
    result = arg
    try:
        page = urlopen ( arg )
        result += '<br/>%s: ' % searchFor
        for line in page.readlines():
            loc =  find ( line, "Jobs 1 to " )
            if loc != -1:
                loc2 = find ( line, " of " )
                loc3 = find ( line, "</B>", loc2 )
                result += line [ loc2 + 4 : loc3 ]
                return result
        result += 'None found'
    except Exception, msg:
        result += '<br/>' + str ( msg )
    return result

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print getCount (  )

If I upload this into an External Method with function name "getCount" and then click on the 'Test' tab I get the following:

http://jobsearch.monster.ca/jobsearch.asp?brd=1&cy=CA&lid=236&fn=6&fn=546&fn=660&fn=554&fn=561&q=Cobol<br/>[Errno socket error] (10061, 'Connection refused')

Would appreciate any more thoughts you might have.

Bill

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