Description

Unable to retrieve dataset from mdata.org
The site is down.

Steps/Code to Reproduce

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_mldata
mnist = fetch_mldata('MNIST original')

Expected Results

[mnist data loaded]

Actual Results

TimeoutError Traceback (most recent call last)
C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\urllib\request.py in do_open(self, http_class, req, **http_conn_args)
1317 h.request(req.get_method(), req.selector, req.data, headers,
-> 1318 encode_chunked=req.has_header('Transfer-encoding'))
1319 except OSError as err: # timeout error

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in request(self, method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
1238 """Send a complete request to the server."""
-> 1239 self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
1240

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in _send_request(self, method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
1284 body = _encode(body, 'body')
-> 1285 self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
1286

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in endheaders(self, message_body, encode_chunked)
1233 raise CannotSendHeader()
-> 1234 self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
1235

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in _send_output(self, message_body, encode_chunked)
1025 del self._buffer[:]
-> 1026 self.send(msg)
1027

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in send(self, data)
963 if self.auto_open:
--> 964 self.connect()
965 else:

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\http\client.py in connect(self)
935 self.sock = self._create_connection(
--> 936 (self.host,self.port), self.timeout, self.source_address)
937 self.sock.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\socket.py in create_connection(address, timeout, source_address)
721 if err is not None:
--> 722 raise err
723 else:

C:\Users\frada\Dev\Python\Miniconda3\lib\socket.py in create_connection(address, timeout, source_address)
712 sock.bind(source_address)
--> 713 sock.connect(sa)
714 return sock

TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] Une tentative de connexion a échoué car le parti connecté n’a pas répondu convenablement au-delà d’une certaine durée ou une connexion établie a échoué car l’hôte de connexion n’a pas répondu

Versions

Windows-10-10.0.14393-SP0
Python 3.6.0 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 23 2016, 11:57:41) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)]
NumPy 1.12.0
SciPy 0.19.0
Scikit-Learn 0.18.1