Getting HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden when trying to load California Housing dataset

### Describe the bug

When trying to load the dataset I get an error.

### Steps/Code to Reproduce

```
from sklearn.datasets import fetch_california_housing
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split 
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

housing = fetch_california_housing()

X_train_full, X_test, y_train_full, y_test = train_test_split(
housing.data, housing.target)
X_train, X_valid, y_train, y_valid = train_test_split(X_train_full, y_train_full)

scaler = StandardScaler()
X_train_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(X_train)
X_valid_scaled = scaler.transform(X_valid)
X_test_scaled = scaler.transform(X_test)
```

### Expected Results

Dataset loads

### Actual Results

```
HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
[/var/folders/wx/mz49j6yd5514yjn5k60sk6900000gn/T/ipykernel_16344/1379907178.py](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/var/folders/wx/mz49j6yd5514yjn5k60sk6900000gn/T/ipykernel_16344/1379907178.py) in <module>
      3 from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
      4 
----> 5 housing = fetch_california_housing()
      6 
      7 X_train_full, X_test, y_train_full, y_test = train_test_split(

[~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sklearn/datasets/_california_housing.py](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/Users/aryamanbhatia/neural%20network%20for%20practice/~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sklearn/datasets/_california_housing.py) in fetch_california_housing(data_home, download_if_missing, return_X_y, as_frame)
    133     This dataset consists of 20,640 samples and 9 features.
    134     """
--> 135     data_home = get_data_home(data_home=data_home)
    136     if not exists(data_home):
    137         makedirs(data_home)

[~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sklearn/datasets/_base.py](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/Users/aryamanbhatia/neural%20network%20for%20practice/~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/sklearn/datasets/_base.py) in _fetch_remote(remote, dirname)

[~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/Users/aryamanbhatia/neural%20network%20for%20practice/~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/urllib/request.py) in urlretrieve(url, filename, reporthook, data)
    237     url_type, path = _splittype(url)
    238 
--> 239     with contextlib.closing(urlopen(url, data)) as fp:
    240         headers = fp.info()
    241 
...
--> 641         raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
    642 
    643 class HTTPRedirectHandler(BaseHandler):

HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
```

### Versions

```shell
System:
    python: 3.9.13 (main, Aug 25 2022, 18:29:29)  [Clang 12.0.0 ]
executable: /Users/aryamanbhatia/opt/anaconda3/bin/python
   machine: macOS-10.16-x86_64-i386-64bit

Python dependencies:
          pip: 22.2.2
   setuptools: 63.4.1
      sklearn: 1.0.2
        numpy: 1.26.3
        scipy: 1.9.1
       Cython: 0.29.32
       pandas: 1.4.4
   matplotlib: 3.5.2
       joblib: 1.1.0
threadpoolctl: 2.2.0

Built with OpenMP: True
```

COMMENT:
Here for tracking the discussion:

It was my answer:

> This is really unlikely that this is linked to an outage or a service disruptions. We got multiple reports. Be aware that this is not limited to our specific file: https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues/4601
> At first, one pattern that we could observe is that the 403 error was usually impacting people in Asia.
With Google Colab, this is more difficult to know since we don't have information about the node (or asking our user to debug this is quite tedious).
> But since we observe this error quite repetitively, make me think that this is really not related to service disruptions.

And the support answer:

> The content seems to be restricted on the part of Asia, but not from our side.
We had people contacting us regarding this and once they switch to a VPN or use a different network they can access the file.
The issue is not from our side.
If there's anything else we can assist you with, please let us know.

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