I'm trying to access a Wikipedia page with the PEAR::HTTP_Request class in PHP. When I try to access http://en.wikipedia.org/, the request is as follows:

ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/

The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied. Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.

Your cache administrator is wikidown@bomis.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Generated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:34:13 GMT by srv6.wikimedia.org (squid/2.5.STABLE12)

It's not that my user agent is blocked, because it's sending: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1). I would send my own user agent string and not fake another, but from what I hear that's not necessary for most minor projects such as mine.

Could my IP be blocked, and if so, could I find out why? If not, are there any little tricks I need to know about a PHP script connecting to Wikipedia?

Thank you,

-HoodedMan "Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart."