title: Error when using request.get function in python3
body: <p>When i use <code>requests.get()</code> function in python3 using following commands</p>
  
  <pre><code>import requests
  res = requests.get('http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.txt')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then python3 throws the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 557, in urlopen
      body=body, headers=headers)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 351, in _make_request
      conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1137, in request
      self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1182, in _send_request
      self.endheaders(body)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1133, in endheaders
      self._send_output(message_body)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 963, in _send_output
      self.send(msg)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 898, in send
      self.connect()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 155, in connect
      conn = self._new_conn()
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 134, in _new_conn
      (self.host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 90, in create_connection
      raise err
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 80, in create_connection
      sock.connect(sa)
  TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out
  
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 370, in send
      timeout=timeout
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 607, in urlopen
      _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 271, in increment
      raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
  requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='192.168.15.2', port=8000): Max retries exceeded with url: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.txt (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', TimeoutError(110, 'Connection timed out')))
  
  During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 69, in get
      return request('get', url, params=params, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 50, in request
      response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 465, in request
      resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 573, in send
      r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 424, in send
      raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
  requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='192.168.15.2', port=8000): Max retries exceeded with url: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.txt (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', TimeoutError(110, 'Connection timed out')))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As far as I know it says no internet connection, but my internet is working fine. So why python is throwing this error?</p>