I have this piece of code import urllib2
proc_url = 'http://www.nse-india.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2001/ JAN/cm01JAN2001bhav.csv.zip' print 'processing....', proc_url req = urllib2.Request(proc_url) res = urllib2.urlopen(req) when i run this...following error comes Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Python26/reqnse.py", line 92, in <module> res = urllib2.urlopen(req) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 395, in open response = meth(req, response) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 508, in http_response 'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 433, in error return self._call_chain(*args) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 367, in _call_chain result = func(*args) File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 516, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden would anyone help me why ?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list