403: Forbidden' for url: 'https://cumulus.services.live.com/vasreddy@hotmail.co.uk/LiveContact
Hi,
Can you help on this? I am trying to get windows contact data using java program and end up with an error 403 Forbidden.
I already get userhandle, DomainAuthenticationToken, RequestApproved information and then trying to open an URL
connection with the uri,https://cumulus.services.live.com/vasreddy@hotmail.co.uk/LiveContacts/
URL u = new URL(uri);
HttpURLConnection uc = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
uc.setDoOutput(true);
uc.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "DomainAuthToken at=\"" + DomainAuthenticationToken + "\"");
uc.setRequestMethod("GET");
System.out.println("property " + uc.getRequestProperty("Authorization"));
PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(uc.getOutputStream());
System.out.println("ResponseCode " + uc.getResponseCode());
System.out.println("ResponseMessage " + uc.getResponseMessage());
System.out.println("getContentType " + uc.getContentType());
System.out.println("getContentLength " + uc.getContentLength());
Then here, I am getting ResponseCode as 403 and ResponseMessage as forbidden.
So please let me know the root cause for this or how to get windows contacts using java?
Hi, Srinivasa!
Windows Live Data uses standard HTTP requests and responses to communicate with applications so the language you use should not be a problem as long as it support creating HTTP requests and getting responses back.
I checked your code, and it seems correct. Here are some basic things that comes to mind:
- Are you sending the HTTP GET request from the same domain, and for the same user? The Domnain Authentication Token is specific for each domain and user Live ID.
- The Authorization header should be something like this:
Authorization: DomainAuthToken at="A:20070426T000650Z:really.randomthirdparty.com:AtQDV882yzjy1tl9D5SO1vGM4uxG0U6RAtGRyQiLSyHr0IqPRGXUPQsflp4t8zwKkPRE9lsuNNa7c1BbEn7xQCw9MAH5Ul5+8Y+/LsemCgzWLN9Z4f3E98fXHqw6THofMUgmKc2ob9dBEe0k+nEXwicexxTEnV8eOH+Idm6sE0py5x4lI41zGWGWGFkVz0v2i5HSK7DmRz3qG4LsJKshBsK5DUX/Hrt/G06Y1ublIb5EuYsRZS/vrh+gtGTHkpWTdd1vP3HCg+cJ/a2gCTHZ9EMGSGNBkLrQKURUEzQDVuNs6zK9+91/U6EFRAHdIZJpasNmfVgUnj9z9fYMFFnGWw=="
Note that the above header is a single line.
Let me know if any of this helps. If not, I'll try to create a Java program to see how it works.
Hi Federico,
Thank you very much for your timely help. I am able to get contacts information now. There was a problem in my code in preparing authentication token and I commented some of the code related to printwriter as I really don't require PrintWriter(uc.getOutputStream());
but i have added
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(inputLine);
}
thanks once again
