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Python HTTP request with headers attached generates 403 error on cloud server, running fine on my machine

To wrap up the issue I found and need help on,

  • I created a python program that calls a get request from https://bx.in.th/api/pairing/
  • The program works well on my machine (Mac OSX)
  • Once running on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet, it throws HTTP 403 forbidden error.
  • I did a day of research and most of the answers are to modify headers which I tried them all with no light of success.

Some links/references I went through.

Here is the simplified source code that points to the problem :

import urllib.request
import json

url = 'https://bx.in.th/api/pairing/'

headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11',
    'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
    'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3',
    'Accept-Encoding': 'none',
    'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
    'Connection': 'keep-alive'
}

request = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)

response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)

print(response.read())
print()
print(response.getheaders())

The proper output should be :

b'{"1":{"pairing_id":1,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"BTC"},"21":{"pairing_id":21,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"ETH"},"22":{"pairing_id":22,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"DAS"},"23":{"pairing_id":23,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"REP"},"20":{"pairing_id":20,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"ETH"},"4":{"pairing_id":4,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"DOG"},"6":{"pairing_id":6,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"FTC"},"24":{"pairing_id":24,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"GNO"},"13":{"pairing_id":13,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"HYP"},"2":{"pairing_id":2,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"LTC"},"3":{"pairing_id":3,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"NMC"},"26":{"pairing_id":26,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"OMG"},"14":{"pairing_id":14,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"PND"},"5":{"pairing_id":5,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"PPC"},"19":{"pairing_id":19,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"QRK"},"15":{"pairing_id":15,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"XCN"},"7":{"pairing_id":7,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"XPM"},"17":{"pairing_id":17,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"XPY"},"25":{"pairing_id":25,"primary_currency":"THB","secondary_currency":"XRP"},"8":{"pairing_id":8,"primary_currency":"BTC","secondary_currency":"ZEC"}}'

[('Date', 'Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:27:02 GMT'), ('Content-Type', 'text/javascript'), ('Content-Length', '1485'), ('Connection', 'close'), ('Set-Cookie', '__cfduid=d51c37ea835bae4a0c892e91f34f7bc131502616422; expires=Mon, 13-Aug-18 09:27:02 GMT; path=/; domain=.bx.in.th; HttpOnly'), ('Cache-Control', 'max-age=86400'), ('Expires', 'Mon, 14 Aug 2017 09:27:02 GMT'), ('Strict-Transport-Security', 'max-age=0'), ('X-Content-Type-Options', 'nosniff'), ('Server', 'cloudflare-nginx'), ('CF-RAY', '38daa2e36e0a836b-BKK')]

The error got from running the source code on the droplet :

raceback (most recent call last):
  File "api-call.py", line 17, in <module>
    response = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 163, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 472, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 582, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 510, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 590, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

Thank you!

Solution

  • You have to use strong proxy like Luminati. I also was getting 403 error status, but it works well with luminati proxy.