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403 calling api.weather.gov using Buzz client w/ https

Trying to use curl/file_get_contents using Buzz in my Symfony application to retrieve data like from what you could see here:

https://api.weather.gov/points/44.3537,-73.8636/forecast/hourly

No matter what, I seem to get a 403 Forbidden error and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice? 

    $location = sprintf(
        '/points/%f,%f/forecast/hourly', $this->latitude, $this->longitude
    );

    $request  = new Request('GET', $location, 'https://api.weather.gov');
    $response = new Response();

    try {
        $this->httpClient->send($request, $response);
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        throw new ServiceResponseException('Failed to send Request', 0, $e);
    }

    if (!$response->isSuccessful()) {
        throw new ServiceResponseException('Unsuccessful Response', $response->getStatusCode());
    }

    return $response->getContent();

In Buzz' FileGetContents class

$url = $request->getHost().$request->getResource();

$url evaluates to : https://api.weather.gov/points/44.353700,-73.863600/forecast/hourly

Same with CURL

Headers returned

Array ( [0] => HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden [1] => Server: AkamaiGHost [2] => Mime-Version: 1.0 [3] => Content-Type: text/html [4] => Content-Length: 334 [5] => Expires: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:15:56 GMT [6] => Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:15:56 GMT [7] => Connection: close )
Solution

  • You need to set the Accept, Version, and User-Agent headers.