Question

I am trying to query some XML from a hotel database using Ruby, and am getting the results:

403 Developer Inactive

I used the code:

require 'net/http'

url = URI.parse('URL of the HTTP query')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
  http.request(req)
}
puts res.body

I would give the actual URL, but it contains the API key/etc…so I really cannot divulge it.

Is there anything wrong with the code or might it be on the company needing to activate the key?

Thanks

Answer 1

403 is the HTTP status code FORBIDDEN, which leads me to believe you have a problem authenticating your API request, maybe because of a wrong key or something.