socket.error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

If you are getting following error when u try to connect HTTP URL using Python code then solution will be not that tough it is given below.

I was try to connect Splunk using python scripts and i got this error. Code which i was running

import splunklib.client  as client
HOST = "restapi.splunk.Company.com"
PORT = 8809
USERNAME = "user"
PASSWORD = "pwd"

# Create a Service instance and log in
service = client.connect(
    host=HOST,
    port=PORT,
    username=USERNAME,
    password=PASSWORD)

# Print installed apps to the console to verify login
for app in service.indexes:
    print app.name

Error popped up: socket.error: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

Solution : Change Port number to 443, because default web port number is 443.