<div dir="auto">What I don't understand is why it works with wget but not with curl (independently of GDAL). I tried it in my Ubuntu and it happens as well.<div dir="auto">There is probably something "picky" in that server, but what? I tried with a different user agent, but no change.<br><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">If you find out the reason, please tell us.</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 25 Apr 2026, 18:18 Scott via gdal-dev, <<a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, it works on Amazon Linux 2<br>
gdal 3.13.0, curl 8.3.0<br>
<br>
But not Debian 12<br>
gdal 3.13.0, curl 7.88.1<br>
<br>
The 403, if the one machine was blocked (why would it), wget shouldn't <br>
work, but it does.<br>
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On 4/25/26 01:27, Laurențiu Nicola via gdal-dev wrote:<br>
> gdal vector info /vsizip/vsicurl/<a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip</a> works for me (GDAL 3.12.3), but takes a couple of minutes, because ZIP isn't great at random access. I actually cancelled it after it printed the name of the third layer.<br>
> <br>
> HTTP 403 is "Forbidden", which is.. interesting.<br>
> <br>
> Laurentiu<br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, at 04:52, Scott via gdal-dev wrote:<br>
>> Greetings!<br>
>><br>
>> I'm having issues with a remote file. The following do not work:<br>
>><br>
>> gdal vsi copy<br>
>> <a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip</a> .<br>
>> gdal vector info<br>
>> /vsizip/vsicurl/<a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip</a><br>
>> curl<br>
>> <a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip</a><br>
>> -o stf.gdb.zip<br>
>><br>
>> All result in a 403, since they're dependent on curl.<br>
>><br>
>> However, the following 'wget' works fine:<br>
>><br>
>> wget <a href="https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fema.gov/about/reports-and-data/openfema/cl2024_v1.gdb.zip</a><br>
>><br>
>> Has anyone encountered this before? What am I missing?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks!<br>
>> Scott<br>
>><br>
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