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When You See 403, Immediately Think of These...

December 23, 2024
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Most of the time when I am dealing with cloud solution, the 403 is the most frequent code I encounter. Therefore, I decide, “Enough!🤬 I need to document all these bizarre cases!”

👀Key Indicators

When you encounter 403, you should immediately think of these followings keywords:

  1. permission denied
  2. forbidden
  3. authorization
  4. access denied
  5. insufficient permissions
  6. request refused
  7. authentication
  8. blocked
  9. restricted
  10. security
  11. credentials
  12. unauthorized
  13. server response
  14. forbidden error
  15. HTTP status code

✏Possible Solutions

When you encounter 403, you should immediately think of these possible solutions:

  1. IAM
  2. ACL
  3. permissions
  4. authentication
  5. authorization
  6. user roles
  7. access control
  8. security settings
  9. policy update
  10. credentials
  11. server configuration
  12. whitelist
  13. firewall settings
  14. directory permissions
  15. access tokens

🌱Example

#TODO document the everyday cases…