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Using Mozilla when I try to do a search I get as answer "403 Forbidden". What to do?
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This error means that you have tried to access something for which you cannot have access. An example is trying to access a page that is restricted to site administrators. Another example is when you try to access a website’s directory listing, and such access has been specifically prohibited 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 treat this error, what you have to do depends a lot on the specific website that gave you this error.
This error is somewhat similar to the 404. When a website server issues a 404 error, it means that you tried 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 don’t have access and you must provide the login and password first. In the case of 403, you 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.
Behold more about HTTP status codes in wikipedia.
In particular on the 403, see here.
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