Extract xml from api.hostip.info. Minidom works on local GAE but not Google GAE

Question

Trying to upload xml latitude, longitude coordinates from api.hostip.info. Python minidom works fine in local GAE (and iPython) but does not work in Google GAE. I can throw the code below but I think I'm missing something specific to Google GAE in extracting xml from another website.

ip = self.request.remote_addr
IP_URL = "http://api.hostip.info/?="
def get_coords(ip):
    url = IP_URL + ip
    xml = None
    try:
        xml = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    except urllib2.URLError, e:
        return "in URLError "+ e.code   
    try:
        if xml:
            s = minidom.parseString(xml)
        else:
            return "unable to parse content"
    except:
        return "exception error unable to parse content"
    try:
        if s:
            coords = s.getElementsByTagName("gml:coordinates")
        else:
            return "unable to get coords"
    except:
        return "exception error unable to get coords"
    try:    
        if coords:  #Google GAE fails on this if statement
            p = coords[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue
        else:
            return "unable to get node value- points"
    except:
        return "exception unable to get node-value points"
    try:
        lon, lat = coords[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue.split(',')
        points = [Point(lat,lon)]
        return points
    except:
        return "unable to return points"  
    return None + "dropped to bottom" 

Answer 1

Problem solved. api.hostip.info not generating location based on sent IP address except on a one or two time basis. ap.host.info ignores IP address given and then defaults to ip location of sender. I used a different IP geolocator api and it worked fine