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 gets a 403 (Forbidden) response.
-I found a question on Stack Overflow (related to another RC task) that suggested setting the http Agent property of the connection. Is this necessary? I don't see anything like this in the other languages solutions?
+I found a question on Stack Overflow (related to another RC task) that suggested setting the http Agent property of the connection and it seems that is correct - by default, Java sets the user agent which stops the above code working. Interestingly, the .NET default is not to set the user agent which is presumably why the C# sample works.
+Setting the user agent to "" appears to work, as does pretending to be a browser...
-[[User:Tigerofdarkness]]
+<pre>
+URL            url = new URL( ... );
+URLConnection  uc  = url.openConnection();
+uc.setRequestProperty( "User-Agent", "" );
+BufferedReader bfr = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( uc.getInputStream() ) );
+String line = bfr.readLine();
+etc...
+</pre>