# Http API call using "http request" node receives "access denied" response

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-using-http-request-node-receives-access-denied-response/24976>\
**Category:** FAQs\
**Created:** [16 April 2020 22:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-using-http-request-node-receives-access-denied-response/24976 "2020-04-16T22:08:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [17 April 2020 00:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/http-api-call-using-http-request-node-receives-access-denied-response/24976/3 "2020-04-17T00:12:44Z")

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Thank you, adding the header works:  
msg.url = "[https://api.weather.gov](https://api.weather.gov)";  
msg.headers = {};  
msg.headers['USER-AGENT'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36';

return msg;

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