403 Http Error Code
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Status codes 301 Moved Permanently 302 Found 303 See Other 403 Forbidden 404 Not Found 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons v t e A web server may or may not return a 403 Forbidden HTTP status
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code in response to a request from a client for a web page or html code 401 resource to indicate that the server can be reached and understood the request, but refuses to take any further action. Status
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code 403 responses are the result of the web server being configured to deny access, for some reason, to the requested resource by the client. A typical request that may receive a 403 Forbidden status 400 response is a GET for a web page, performed by a web browser to retrieve the page for display to a user in a browser window. The web server may return a 403 Forbidden status for other types of requests as well. The Apache web server returns 403 Forbidden in response to requests for url paths that correspond to filesystem directories, when directory listings have been disabled in the server html status 302 and there is no Directory Index directive to specify an existing file to be returned to the browser. Some administrators configure the Mod proxy extension to Apache to block such requests, and this will also return 403 Forbidden. Microsoft IIS responds in the same way when directory listings are denied in that server. In WebDAV, the 403 Forbidden response will be returned by the server if the client issued a PROPFIND request but did not also issue the required Depth header, or issued a Depth header of infinity.[1] Status codes 401 (Unauthorized) and 403 (Forbidden) have distinct meanings. A 401 response indicates that access to the resource is restricted, and the request did not provide any HTTP authentication. It is possible that a new request for the same resource will succeed if authentication is provided. The response must include an HTTP WWW-Authenticate header to prompt the user-agent to provide credentials. If valid credentials are not provided via HTTP Authorization, then 401 should not be used.[2] A 403 response generally indicates one of two conditions: Authentication was provided, but the authenticated user is not permitted to perform the requested operation. The operation is forbidden to all users. For example, requests for a directory listing return code 403 when d
the response payload (if any).
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If authentication credentials were provided in the request, the server considers them insufficient https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_403 to grant access. The client SHOULD NOT automatically repeat the request with the same credentials. The client MAY repeat the request with new or different credentials. https://httpstatuses.com/403 However, a request might be forbidden for reasons unrelated to the credentials. An origin server that wishes to "hide" the current existence of a forbidden target resource MAY instead respond with a status code of 404 Not Found. Source: RFC7231 Section 6.5.3 403 Code References Rails HTTP Status Symbol :forbidden Go HTTP Status Constant http.StatusForbidden Symfony HTTP Status Constant Response::HTTP_FORBIDDEN Python2 HTTP Status Constant httplib.FORBIDDEN Python3+ HTTP Status Constant http.client.FORBIDDEN Python3.5+ HTTP Status Constant http.HTTPStatus.FORBIDDEN← Return to httpstatuses.com
by the URL is forbidden for some reason. This indicates a fundamental access problem, which may be difficult to resolve because the HTTP protocol allows the Web server to give this response without providing http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html any reason at all. So the 403 error is equivalent to a blanket 'NO' by the Web server - with no further discussion allowed. By far the most common reason for this error is that directory browsing is forbidden for the Web site. Most Web sites want you to navigate using the URLs in the Web pages for that site. They do not often allow you to browse the file directory structure of http error the site. For example try the following URL (then hit the 'Back' button in your browser to return to this page): http://www.checkupdown.com/accounts/grpb/B1394343/ This URL should fail with a 403 error saying "Forbidden: You don not have permission to access /accounts/grpb/B1394343/ on this server". This is because our CheckUpDown Web site deliberately does not want you to browse directories - you have to navigate from one specific Web page to another using the hyperlinks in http error code those Web pages. This is true for most Web sites on the Internet - their Web server has "Allow directory browsing" set OFF. Fixing 403 errors - general You first need to confirm if you have encountered a "No directory browsing" problem. You can see this if the URL ends in a slash '/' rather than the name of a specific Web page (e.g. .htm or .html). If this is your problem, then you have no option but to access individual Web pages for that Web site directly. It is possible that there should be some content in the directory, but there is none there yet. For example if your ISP offers a 'Home Page' then you need to provide some content - usually HTML files - for the Home Page directory that your ISP assigns to you. Until the content is there, anyone trying to access your Home Page could encounter a 403 error. The solution is to upload the missing content - directly yourself or by providing it to your ISP. Once the content is in the directory, it also needs to be authorised for public access via the Internet. Your ISP should do this as a matter of course - if they do not, then they have missed a no-brainer step. If the entire Web