403 when trying to download a remote image

Question

I am trying to download pictures from some urls. For some pictures it works fine, but for others I get 403 errors.

For exemple, this one: http://blog.zenika.com/them

Answer 1

As mentioned, some hoster prevent this intrusion using some header like UserAgent :

This doesn't work :

   val urls = """http://blog.zenika.com/themes/Zenika/img/zenika.gif"""
  val url = new URL(urls)
  val urlConnection = url.openConnection() 
  val inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream()
  val bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))

This works :

val urls = """http://blog.zenika.com/themes/Zenika/img/zenika.gif"""
val url = new URL(urls)
val urlConnection = url.openConnection()   
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", """NING/1.0""") 
val inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream()
val bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))