I am trying to connect to a web server in Python 3 and it just doesn't work! I wrote the following in my code editor VS Code and btw, I don't have telnet installed. So, here's my code:
import socket
mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
mysock.connect(('http://data.pr4e.org',80))
And the traceback I am getting:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
Any suggestions?
CodePudding user response:
The error is saying name lookup fails, and for good reason. When using raw sockets, you mustn't put the http://
protocol in the hostname string.
mysock.connect(('http://data.pr4e.org', 80))
must be
mysock.connect(('data.pr4e.org', 80))