title: urllib HTTPS request: <urlopen error unknown url type: https>
body: <p>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 retrive the file. </p>
  
  <p>My script import the following library and uses the urlretrive to get the file previously. Since it is now forwarded to https with 302 redirection. I am getting some error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>import urllib
  import urllib.request
  
  urllib.request.urlretrieve("http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz", "/thefile.gz")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My error:-</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 178, in urlretrieve
      with contextlib.closing(urlopen(url, data)) as fp:
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 153, in urlopen
      return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 461, in open
      response = meth(req, response)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 571, in http_response
      'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 493, in error
      result = self._call_chain(*args)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
      result = func(*args)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 676, in http_error_302
      return self.parent.open(new, timeout=req.timeout)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 455, in open
      response = self._open(req, data)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 478, in _open
      'unknown_open', req)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
      result = func(*args)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 1257, in unknown_open
      raise URLError('unknown url type: %s' % type)
  urllib.error.URLError: &lt;urlopen error unknown url type: https&gt;
  </code></pre>