US2020 Tiger Map node fails with 403 Forbidden

[koettert]

https://forum.knime.com/t/solution-us2020-tiger-map-knime-node-error-for-windows-11/87533

We assume this is a problem with the service itself as mentioned here similar to https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/comments/1igxwf8/anyone_else_getting_a_403_forbidden_error_when/ but will investigate to see if we can find more information about this.

[UrbanGISer]

gdf = gp.read_file("/vsizip/vsicurl/https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2020/ADDR/tl_2020_01001_addr.zip")

[UrbanGISer]

Blocked by Cloudflare, so use FTP directly:

url="ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2020/ADDR/tl_2020_01001_addr.zip"
gdf2 = gp.read_file(url)

$ curl -I https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2020/ADDR/tl_2020_01001_addr.zip
HTTP/2 403
date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:51:19 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
content-length: 4518
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
referrer-policy: same-origin
cache-control: max-age=15
expires: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:51:34 GMT
set-cookie: __cf_bm=Sr3U5w5PkQb40rwegNablQYwHzH0ZbywQrDEhVzfPrk-1744725079-1.0.1.1-1Ektot5lY6.zInmimwm6q6ROP6kmdAH70y911KGNbrNIOKKVCdtLH3RgA0P8MeOAEdWZPH1XOPqCrZ7vchdYDx92xZ5e6L.O9FyItFMvY8M; path=/; expires=Tue, 15-Apr-25 14:21:19 GMT; domain=.www2.census.gov; HttpOnly; Secure; SameSite=None
server: cloudflare
cf-ray: 930beac48bb6435d-EWR