On Nov 12, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Stuart wrote:

I'm getting HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden when tring to access the special export pages from my server (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/word)

Make sure you've set your user-agent string. Various generic defaults are blocked to discourage abuse; you should always send a User-agent header that identifies your software uniquely, preferably including a URL so that site owners can contact you if your bot is causing problems.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)