How to correct the 403 Forbidden error? [closed]

This error means that you tried to access something that you can not access. An example is trying to access a page that is restricted to site administrators. Another example is when you try to access the directory listing of a site, and such access has been specifically forbidden for everyone.

Mozilla Firefox is not to blame for this. The error is coming from the site you are trying to access, not the browser. This way, to deal with this error, what you have to do depends a lot on the specific site that gave you this error.

This error is somewhat similar to 404. When a site's server issues a 404 error, it means that you attempted to access a page that the server claims does not exist. Already in error 403, the server is claiming that the page may even exist, but that you are not allowed to access it.

This error is different from 401, which occurs when you do not have access and must provide the login and password first. In the case of 403, you have already provided the login and password and your login is not allowed to access the page you tried to access, or even if you provided some login and password, even then you would not have access. As a result, the server simply refuses to provide access.

See more about HTTP status codes on wikipedia .

Especially on 403, see here .