Articles tagged with urllib2

1. [Python] Socket Timeouts in urllib2

   Posted on March 04, 2016 in Programming

   Things have changed quite a lot since this post was originally written in 2016. Currently, I would recommend switching over to making asynchronous calls via aiohttp.

   One of my scripts that makes an API call has been failing silently lately. It appears that the connection is timing out, but I …

2. Working Around EVE-KILL + Cloudflare Block

   Posted on December 21, 2015 in Programming

   I've got some code that generates loss reports for EVE Online. It uses the EVE-KILL API and Python's urllib2 library. Near the end of October 2015, I noticed that my calls to the API were returning a 403: Forbidden error from the server. I didn't realize it at the time …

3. [Python] urllib2 with gzip or deflate encoding

   Posted on April 16, 2015 in Programming

   The other night I was working on some Python code that interacts with the zKillboard API. The API call returns kill information via JSON for EVE Online. While making the request, I was getting an error that I was using "non-acceptable encoding." It turns out that the zKillboard guys require …