Server returning 403 for url openStream()

Question

import java.net.URL;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
public class Test {
           


        

Answer 1

This is an old post but if people wanted to know how this works.

a 403 means acces-denied. There is a work around for this. If you want to able to do this you have to set a user agant parameter to 'fool' the website

This is how my old method looked like:

private InputStream read() {
try {
    return url.openStream();
 } 
catch (IOException e) {
  String error = e.toString();
  throw new RuntimeException(e);
 }
}

Changed it to: (And it works for me!)

private InputStream read() {
try {
    HttpURLConnection httpcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    httpcon.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0");

  return httpcon.getInputStream();
 } catch (IOException e) {
    String error = e.toString();
  throw new RuntimeException(e);
 }
}