[3.14] gh-141412: Use reliable target URL for urllib example (GH-141474)

The endpoint used for demonstrating reading URLs is no longer
stable. This change substitutes a target over which we have more
control.
(cherry picked from commit fbcac799518e0cb29fcf5f84ed1fa001010b9073)

Co-authored-by: Bob Kline <bkline@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -183,13 +183,13 @@ protocols. Two of the simplest are :mod:`urllib.request` for retrieving data
from URLs and :mod:`smtplib` for sending mail::
>>> from urllib.request import urlopen
>>> with urlopen('http://worldtimeapi.org/api/timezone/etc/UTC.txt') as response:
>>> with urlopen('https://docs.python.org/3/') as response:
... for line in response:
... line = line.decode() # Convert bytes to a str
... if line.startswith('datetime'):
... if 'updated' in line:
... print(line.rstrip()) # Remove trailing newline
...
datetime: 2022-01-01T01:36:47.689215+00:00
Last updated on Nov 11, 2025 (20:11 UTC).
>>> import smtplib
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')