Thanks that helped
From: mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-api-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Soxred93 Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 9:52 PM To: MediaWiki API announcements & discussion Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-api] The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
You need to set a user-agent before your request.
-X!
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Rojan Ulak wrote:
i'm trying to run this query from my .net code and i'm getting 403 Forbidden message, this was working fro me last month i tested it.
WebClient cleint = new WebClient(); cleint.BaseAddress = "http://en.wikipedia.org/"; string url = @"w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmtitle=Category:Physics"; string htmlCode = cleint.DownloadString(url); //This is where i get the Exception.
Any Idea Guys?
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