title: ValueError: unknown url type
body: <p>The title pretty much says it all. Here's my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from urllib2 import urlopen as getpage
  print = getpage("www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and here's the traceback error I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:/Users/**/Dropbox/Dev/ComServ/citetest.py", line 2, in &lt;module&gt;
      contents = getpage("www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586")
    File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
      return _opener.open(url, data)
    File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 366, in open
      protocol = req.get_type()
    File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 241, in get_type
      raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
  ValueError: unknown url type: www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?ctid=5586
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My best guess is that urllib can't retrieve data from untidy php URLs. if this is the case, is there a work around? If not, what am I doing wrong?</p>