Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL

Question

i am building a java application and i am trying to access this url

http://cdn.shephertz.com/repository/files/1617a5da9a4bb32fad94d45f143ae21863bce533d283449d8023a852f787276b/5242b6593a4be2e25dec84b598fbcbe3e929c66a/picture 1.jpeg

somehow i do not know why, i get this error

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://cdn.shephertz.com/repository/files/1617a5da9a4bb32fad94d45f143ae21863bce533d283449d8023a852f787276b/5242b6593a4be2e25dec84b598fbcbe3e929c66a/picture 1.jpeg
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$10.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
    at _mouthy.ImageLoader$1.run(ImageLoader.java:32)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://cdn.shephertz.com/repository/files/1617a5da9a4bb32fad94d45f143ae21863bce533d283449d8023a852f787276b/5242b6593a4be2e25dec84b598fbcbe3e929c66a/picture 1.jpeg
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.URLConnection.getContentType(Unknown Source)
    at _mouthy.ImageLoader$1.run(ImageLoader.java:31)
    ... 1 more

 

and i do not know why, i have tried a whole lot,and all kinds of crazy stuff,  this is currently my code

 

    HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
                        urlc.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0");
                        urlc.addRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
                        urlc.addRequestProperty("Referer", "www.google.com");
                        urlc.connect();

 

can someone actually enlighten me? i actually can access it from a web browser, i do not also think its user-agent because i already have that

Answer 1

Looks like you have space character in your url. Try to encode your URL somethinglike this and it should work fine

 

HttpURLConnection urlc = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(java.net.URLEncoder.encode(url)).openConnection();

 

Let me know if it helps.

 

Thanks

Ajay

Comments

it does not work urlMalformedException... im i missing something sir?