Let's find out the differences between "Forbidden" and "Unauthorized"

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If the 403 status is returned, providing different credentials will not resolve the issue. The client must be granted the appropriate permissions to access the resource.

What is the difference between "prohibited" and "unauthorized"?
Both the terms "Forbidden" and "Unauthorized" represent different types of access problem



A 401 is a client-side error indicating that the request does not contain valid authentication credentials and the user is '[not] authorized' to access the server. Therefore, the error page is loaded.

To resolve this, the client must provide valid authentication credentials as specified in fantuan database the WWW-Authenticate header in the server's response.

Conversely, a 403 error indicates that the server understands the request but denies access, even if the credentials are correct. Therefore, in this case, access to the resource remains 'forbidden.'