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Request works fine in browser but 403 in python

I'm using the Requests library in Python. In the browser, my URL loads okay. In Python, it throws a 403.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>403 Forbidden</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Forbidden</h1>
<p>You don't have permission to access /admin/license.php on this server.</p>
<p>Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</p>
</body></html>

This is my own site, and I don't have any robot protection on it that I know of. I made the PHP file that I'm loading and it's just a simple database query. In the root of the site, I have a WordPress site with default settings. However, I'm not sure if that's relevant.

My code:

import requests
url = "myprivateurl.com"
r = requests.get(url)
print r.text

Does anyone have any guesses why it's throwing a 403 by Python and not by browser?

Thanks so much.

Solution

  • After contacting my web host, and having the ticket upgraded to level 2 support, they disabled mod_security and it works fine now. Not sure if this is a bad thing, but that fixed it.