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Greetings! Would you mind giving this a try again? We are in the middle of moving our servers, so this may be related. I was able to load the workshop plugins this morning, so maybe the issue is resolved. However, I have an idea of what may be causing it if that does not work, so please let me know (we'll try the easy approach first!). Cheers! Sean > Full Name: Shizoom Wang > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: National Chung Hsing University > Package Version: 3.0b1 build date:2011-07-01 17:24 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_3.0b1\jre version: 1.6.0_20 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: Loading plugins > Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv//plugins/ > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv//plugins/ > at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.IOUtil.writeTo(IOUtil.java:583) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.installPlugin(PluginManager.java:2205) > at ucar.unidata.idv.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:247) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.makeManager(IdvBase.java:255) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.doMakePluginManager(IdvBase.java:1097) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IdvBase.getPluginManager(IdvBase.java:1109) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.showSupportFormInThread(IdvUIManager.java:6015) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager.access$800(IdvUIManager.java:138) > at ucar.unidata.idv.ui.IdvUIManager$33.run(IdvUIManager.java:5946) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1091) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TIH-966494 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open