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Hello,

I found out today about this service, impresive tool, and I tried to add it to a java aplication, by using the api provided, but I get all the time the same 403 error:

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://api.geonames.org/search?q=malaga&username=jrgu

For me it is weird, because when I input the url in the browser it works correctly, is this normal?

I wrote the code given in the exmaple:

Code:

 	/**
 	 * @param args
 	 */
 	public static void main(String[] args) {
 		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
 		List<Toponym> toponymsList = new ArrayList<Toponym>();
 		try {
 			setProxy();
 			WebService.setUserName("jrgu"); // add your username here
 			ToponymSearchCriteria searchCriteria = new ToponymSearchCriteria();
 			searchCriteria.setQ("malaga");
 			ToponymSearchResult searchResult = WebService
 					.search(searchCriteria);
 			toponymsList = searchResult.getToponyms();
 		} catch (Exception e) {
 			e.printStackTrace();
 		}
 	}

Thanks,
Joaquín

Joaquín

You have a line "setProxy();" in your code. This is most likely the cause of your problems, that your proxy is not working properly.

Best Regards

Marc

Thank you Marc! for some reason I can not get it to work behind a proxy, but it works perfectly when there is no proxy.