I'm helping someone out by displaying the contents of their spreadsheet 
within a different UI (pretty much have some html tabel elements and 
surrounding elements display in accordance to the content I retrived from 
the given spreadsheet) using PHP/Zend. Now this person doesn't want to deal 
with authentication and has set their spreadsheet to the privacy setting: 
"anyone with a link."

Now I have the link and with it the public key. Before I code anything up in 
PHP, I test the query within my browser to see if I get a XML file. I don't, 
instead I get a "The spreadsheet at this URL could not be found" error. And 
yet, I do get a XML file for this 
spreadsheet<https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-spreadsheets-api/_433NPfYybw/discussion>
 even 
though it has the same privacy setting ("anyone with a link") as the person 
I'm helping out. 

Why am I not able to access this spreadsheet via a query? Is a spreadsheet 
with a "anyone with a link" setting not considered public and I have to make 
the person I'm helping deal with authentication or set their spreadsheet to 
full "public?"

Best,
Vahan

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