Some servers require the User-Agent header.
This fixes this error:
Downloading from https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/dl/SumatraPDF-3.1.2-64-install.exe failed. HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
def download_file(src_url, dest_dir):
try:
- response = urllib2.urlopen(src_url)
+ hdr = {
+ 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:22.0) Gecko/20130405 Firefox/22.0',
+ }
+ request = urllib2.Request(src_url, headers=hdr)
+ response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
except Exception, e:
print 'Downloading from', src_url, 'failed.', e
return