From bcde4163314f3b3577f3c61300819ed927b21591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:50:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] version_getter: catch all exceptions

---
 gui/qt/version_getter.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gui/qt/version_getter.py b/gui/qt/version_getter.py
index 7313d8912..5ae1569ec 100644
--- a/gui/qt/version_getter.py
+++ b/gui/qt/version_getter.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class VersionGetter(threading.Thread):
     def run(self):
         try:
             res = requests.request("GET", "https://electrum.org/version")
-        except socket.error as msg:
+        except:
             print_error("Could not retrieve version information")
             return