error.
In the following example we're going to intentionally cause a :exc:`ProtocolError`
-by providing an invalid URI::
+by providing an URI that doesn't point to an XMLRPC server::
import xmlrpclib
- # create a ServerProxy with an invalid URI
- proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://invalidaddress/")
+ # create a ServerProxy with an URI that doesn't respond to XMLRPC requests
+ proxy = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy("http://www.google.com/")
try:
proxy.some_method()