Python's `urllib2`: Why do I get error 403 when I `urlopen` a Wikipedia page?

Question

I have a strange bug when trying to urlopen a certain page from Wikipedia. This is the page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)

This

Answer 1

I made a workaround for this using php which is not blocked by the site I needed.

it can be accessed like this:

path='http://phillippowers.com/redirects/get.php? 
file=http://website_you_need_to_load.com'
req = urllib2.Request(path)
response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
vdata = response.read()

This will return the html code to you