WinError 10061 - No Connection Could be made

Question

I\'m debugging a simple program, that has worked in the past. I\'ve singled out the instruction where the error takes place, but I cannot figure out what triggers it. I\'ve

Answer 1

Edit Your Environment Variable Path. I had cntlm in my path, which was causing proxy issue.

Answer 2

It turned out the Internet Properties, Connection tab, LAN Settings were set to Proxy Server. I changed it to automatically detect settings, and everything restarted working correctly.