webread examples don't work

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YW
YW on 22 Sep 2016
Edited: per isakson on 16 Aug 2017
I tried to find out how webread works. Following examples don't work for me.
>> filex = 'http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/';
fullList = webread(filex);
Error using readContentFromWebService (line 45)
The server returned the message: "Server redirected too many times (20)" for URL,
'http://nroyaltonproxy:8889/?cfru=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYXRod29ya3MuY29tL21hdGxhYmNlbnRyYWwvZmlsZWV4Y2hhbmdlLw=='
(with HTTP response code unknown).
Error in webread (line 122)
[varargout{1:nargout}] = readContentFromWebService(connection, options);
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lotus whit
lotus whit on 16 Aug 2017
Edited: per isakson on 16 Aug 2017
I have the same problem when i called Google translation API, this is my code
url = 'https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2'
options.KeyName = 'apikey';
options.RequestMethod ='Get';
Options.ContentType ='Josn';
options.KeyValue='XXXXXX';
response = webread(url,options)
the following error appeared :
Error using readContentFromWebService (line 37)
The server returned the message: "Forbidden" for URL,
'https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2' (with
HTTP response code 403).
Error in webread (line 115)
[varargout{1:nargout}] = readContentFromWebService(connection, options);
I filled key value as it is in my console, any one help?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2016
You appear to be using a http proxy that is having difficulty with the site.
When I use telnet directly to the webserver port and make the request, I do not receive any redirect messages at all.
Oni:~ roberson$ telnet www.mathworks.com 80
Trying 23.4.13.144...
Connected to e6779.b.akamaiedge.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/ HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
ETag: "6aac7270871d08f05076ae85c7d9b998"
X-Request-Id: d73f63c54278a9d1730b2e1f23605a5f
X-Runtime: 0.044456
X-Rack-Cache: miss
X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger 4.0.59
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:36:15 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 22:36:15 GMT
Content-Length: 26612
Connection: close
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
(etc)
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Kirby Fears
Kirby Fears on 3 Oct 2016
Edited: Kirby Fears on 3 Oct 2016
Since you're able to successfully visit that website in your browser, you can try manually changing the user agent so Matlab pretends to be a web browser. If this works, you can ask your IT support to allow for Matlab as a user agent.
opts = weboptions('UserAgent','Mozilla/5.0');
filex = 'http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/';
fullList = webread(filex,opts);
Wyfi Mcfly
Wyfi Mcfly on 3 Apr 2017
worked for my issue, thanks!

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YW
YW on 4 Oct 2016
Edited: Walter Roberson on 4 Oct 2016
Still didn't work. See below:
>> opts = weboptions('UserAgent','Mozilla/5.0')
opts =
weboptions with properties:
CharacterEncoding: 'auto'
UserAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0'
Timeout: 5
Username: ''
Password: ''
KeyName: ''
KeyValue: ''
ContentType: 'auto'
ContentReader: []
MediaType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
RequestMethod: 'auto'
ArrayFormat: 'csv'
>> filex = 'http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/'
filex =
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/
>> fullList = webread(filex,opts)
*Error using readContentFromWebService (line 45)
The server returned the message: "Server redirected too many times (20)" for
URL,
'http://nroyaltonproxy:8889/?cfru=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYXRod29ya3MuY29tL21hdGxhYmNlbnRyYWwvZmlsZWV4Y2hhbmdlLw=='
(with HTTP response code unknown).
Error in webread (line 122)
[varargout{1:nargout}] = readContentFromWebService(connection, options);*
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 4 Oct 2016
You will probably need to contact your network people.

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