URL Upload don't work

[Alvin FREY]

Hello everyone,

I recently tried to use the API with the url_upload i made a request to this URL : http://nova.astrometry.net/api/url_upload

Using this parameters : request-json:{"session": "MYSESSION", "url": "https://puu.sh/qO9WO/701b328cde.jpg", "scale_units": "degwidth", "scale_lower": 0.5, "scale_upper": 1.0, "center_ra": 290, "center_dec": 11, "radius": 2.0 }

But I get this error code : 403 Forbidden

Thanks for your help

[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

We use the python 'urllib' module to retrieve URL submissions (the nova server has to download your image from the URL you supplied).

Testing this from the command line, I get:

$ python -c "import urllib; f = urllib.urlopen('https://puu.sh/qO9WO/701b328cde.jpg'); print f.info(); print 'Code:', f.getcode()"
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:23:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d6cdd49f0cc0c4f80d8f292fc02f291641480105416; expires=Sat, 25-Nov-17 20:23:36 GMT; path=/; domain=.puu.sh; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: max-age=10
Expires: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:23:46 GMT
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 3077d1c2fa894716-EWR

Code: 403


So the puu.sh web server is sending a "403" (permission denied) error message when it receives a request from the urllib module.

I checked and "wget" (and firefox web browser) work okay for this URL -- so this web server is discriminating based on the client's request headers.  Which is naughty.

Not much I can do about it...

cheers,
--dustin