urllib2 error

[asit dhal]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Kushal Kumaran
<kushal.kumaran+python at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 5:18 PM, asit <lipun4u at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have this piece of code
>>
>> import urllib2
>>
>> proc_url = 'http://www.nse-india.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2001/
>> JAN/cm01JAN2001bhav.csv.zip'
>> print 'processing....', proc_url
>> req = urllib2.Request(proc_url)
>> res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
>>
>> when i run this...following error comes
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> <snipped detailed trace>
>> HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
>>
>
> The web server is probably trying to forbid downloads using automated
> tools by examining the user agent header (downloading using wget also
> fails, for example).  You can work around that by setting the
> User-Agent header to the same value as a browser that works.
>
> The urllib2 documentation covers how to set headers in requests.
>
> --
> regards,
> kushal
>



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Regards,
Asit Kumar Dhal
TCS, Mumbai
blog: http://asitdhal.blogspot.com/

Thanx...it worked