Xml reader - (403) Forbidden

Question

I use Xml reader to read some blogs feed like this:

var reader = XmlReader.Create(url);

I'm getting an error with some urls:

{"The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden."}

If I open this url in my browser it works well.

Do you have any idea what's wrong?

The *web server* denied anonymous access to you. This has nothing at all to do with XML or XmlReader. — Panagiotis Kanavos, Feb 07 '17 at 16:32
Download Fiddler and see what the full response from the server is. — Cory Nelson, Feb 07 '17 at 16:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '17 at 16:36

You can supply credentials for the XmlReader to use when accessing a URL; which is likely what you need to do in your circumstance. see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/47as68k4(v=vs.71).aspx for details.

You could also use an HttpClient object with credentials to get the response as a Stream and use XmlReader.Create(Stream) instead.

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