[PBS] "HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN" - please include geoblock explanation.

[anovicecodemonkey]

$ youtube-dl --verbose http://video.pbs.org/video/2365155890/
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://video.pbs.org/video/2365155890/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.12.17.2
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.17.4-1-ARCH-x86_64-with-arch
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.4.4, ffprobe 2.4.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[PBS] 2365155890: Downloading JSON metadata
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://urs.pbs.org/redirect/c4217ba7372343cbabbbeb2800fb62c4/'
ERROR: unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1136, in process_info
    success = dl(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1112, in dl
    return fd.download(name, info)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/common.py", line 297, in download
    return self.real_download(filename, info_dict)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/downloader/http.py", line 67, in real_download
    data = self.ydl.urlopen(request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1370, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 461, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 571, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 499, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 433, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/urllib/request.py", line 579, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: FORBIDDEN

[andreas--e]

+1 Yes, that would be great, because I've run into another geoblocked issue (Issue #4472) and also got this non-descriptive "Error 403" error message.

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for the report, in the next version you'll get a proper error message.

[andreas--e]

Thank you very much!