By adding a few more headers I was able to get the data:
import urllib2,cookielib site= "http://www.nseindia.com/live_market/dynaContent/live_watch/get_quote/getHistoricalData.jsp?symbol=JPASSOCIAT&fromDate=1-JAN-2012&toDate=1-AUG-2012&datePeriod=unselected&hiddDwnld=true" hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11', 'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3', 'Accept-Encoding': 'none', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'} req = urllib2.Request(site, headers=hdr) try: page = urllib2.urlopen(req) except urllib2.HTTPError, e: print e.fp.read() content = page.read() print content
Actually, it works with just this one additional header:
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',