Downloading image from Url in java.Server returned HTTP response code: 403 error. How can I get the connection to work?

I am trying to downloada picture from a certain url, but cant do so because I somehow have to give the right userclient to the website.I am sure the problem is that I cant give the user client while using the Url class, because the page can be accesed via browser. I tried using proxy and Urlconnection but couldnt get it to work. Please share your toughts on the matter!

My code is the following:

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.Proxy;
import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import org.opencv.core.Core;
import org.opencv.core.Mat;
import org.opencv.highgui.Highgui;

public class KepLetolto {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        System.loadLibrary(Core.NATIVE_LIBRARY_NAME);
        File file = new File("tempjpeg");
         SocketAddress address = new java.net.InetSocketAddress("xyz.com", 8080);

         // Create an HTTP Proxy using the above SocketAddress.
         Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, address);


        URL url_kep =new URL("http://www.theouthousers.com/images/templates/thumbnails/128058/bayfinger_size3.png");

        ImageIO.write(ImageIO.read(url_kep), "jpeg", file);

        Mat uj = Highgui.imread("temp.jpeg" ,Highgui.CV_LOAD_IMAGE_COLOR);  

    }

}

Answer

Instead of using ImageIO.read(URL), which limits you to the default behavior of the URL’s underlying URLConnection, use ImageIO.read(InputStream).

This allows you to use any HTTP client library – including the basic HttpURLConnection, which you can get from (HttpURLConnection)url_kep.openConnection(). Using that, you can set headers such as User-Agent, if that’s the header required by the site, or other headers such as Referer which are sometimes used to prevent deep-linking.

Once you set up all the headers and any other request options, you can get an InputStream from the client object, and pass that to ImageIO.