urllib HTTPS request:

Question

I have a script on python3.4 and it has been fine until the website I download the file from decides to use https and now I am getting error but can\'t figure out how I can

Answer 1

for HTTP
people who encountered the error ValueError: unknown url type: 'http or ValueError: unknown url type: b'http

while opening some url like below with urllib.request.Request 'http://localhost/simple_form/insert.php'

just change localhost to 127.0.0.1

looks like Request method is looking for a domain.something in url