[Python] Python request.get fails to get an answer for a url I can open on my browser

I'm learning how to use python requests (Python 3) and I am trying to make a simple requests.get to get the HTML code from several websites. Although it works for most of them, there is one I am having trouble with.

When I call : http://es.rs-online.com/ everything works fine:

In [1]: import requests
...:html = requests.get("http://es.rs-online.com/")
In [2]:html
Out[2]: <Response [200]>


However, when I try it with http://es.farnell.com/, python is unable to solve the address and keeps working on it forever. If I set a timeout, no matter how long, the requests.get() will always be interrupted by the timeout and by nothing else. I have also tried adding headers but it didn't solve the issue. Also, I don't think the error has anything to do with the proxy that I'm using, as I am able to open this website in my browser. Currently, my code looks like this:

import requests
headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.76 Safari/537.36'}
html = requests.get("http://es.farnell.com/",headers=headers, timeout=5, allow_redirects = True )


After 5 secs, I get the expected timeout notification.

ReadTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host='es.farnell.com', port=80): Read timed out. (read timeout=5)


Does anyone know what could be the issue?

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