Title: 403 Forbidden
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# 403 Forbidden
* Resolved [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/)
* SOmetimes I get 403 Forbidden broken link, but the link works in browser.
* Log (sanitized) says
* ```
Log: === HTTP code : 403 ===
Response headers
================
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:20:22 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=; expires=Fri, 10-Mar-17 01:20:21 GMT; path=/; domain=. ; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Turbo-Charged-By: LiteSpeed
CF-Cache-Status: MISS
CF-RAY:
Request headers
================
GET /.jpg?w=170 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
Host: personal.
Accept: */*
Referer: https://personal.
Connection: close
Range: bytes=0-2048
Response HTML
================
403 Forbidden
403
Forbidden
Access to this resource on the server is denied!
Proudly powered by
LiteSpeed Web ServerPlease be advised that LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is not a web hosting company and, as such, has no control over content found on this site.
Link is broken.
```
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/)
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* [TomReed1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomreed1/)
* (@tomreed1)
* [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/#post-7156204)
* I’m getting similar results, but it is with just some pdf files from the irs.
The link is good and opens right up when clicked from the checker.
* Tom
———————————– Log: === HTTP code : 403 ===
* Response headers
================ HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 315 Expires: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:53:19
GMT Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:53:19 GMT Connection: close Strict-Transport-Security:
max-age=31536000
* Request headers
================ GET /pub/irs-access/f8858_accessible.pdf HTTP/
1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/
5.0) Host: [http://www.irs.gov](http://www.irs.gov) Accept: */* Referer: [http://offshoreresource1.com](http://offshoreresource1.com)
Connection: close
* Response HTML
================ Access Denied Access Denied
* You don’t have permission to access “http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-access/f8858_accessible.
pdf” on this server.
Reference #18.c420b144.1461869599.4401498
* Link is broken.
* [wp_hela](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wp_hela/)
* (@wp_hela)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/#post-7156222)
* I get 403 errors on ALL external Links.
* However, if you click on the links (frontend or backend in the BLC listing) they
work fine.
* WordPress 4.5.3
* [elizwood-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elizwood-1/)
* (@elizwood-1)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/#post-7156223)
* Did anyone get an answer?
* [elizwood-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elizwood-1/)
* (@elizwood-1)
* [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/#post-7156224)
* It is too bad this plugin no longer works and is not supported. It was a must
have plugin for me in the past.
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* 4 replies
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* Last reply from: [elizwood-1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elizwood-1/)
* Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-forbidden-95/#post-7156224)
* Status: resolved