Title: Error 403
Last modified: October 5, 2016

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# Error 403

 *  [nhanhcentral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhanhcentral/)
 * (@nhanhcentral)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-2/)
 * Plugin works, however the RSS feed is very buggy.
    My images are online and accessible,
   yet Facebook cannot download them. I get this error for all my images: General
   Errors: Could Not Download Image: Your image from URL [http://www.theincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/25511829592_38b1bf7120_z.jpg](http://www.theincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/25511829592_38b1bf7120_z.jpg)
   could not be downloaded with an error code 403. Please check to make sure image
   at [http://www.theincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/25511829592_38b1bf7120_z.jpg](http://www.theincentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/25511829592_38b1bf7120_z.jpg)
   is active and loads correctly at that URL.
 * Because of this, none of my articles have been approved by Facebook.

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 *  [Paulo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demoive/)
 * (@demoive)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-2/#post-8258223)
 * Hi [@nhanhcentral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhanhcentral/). Thanks
   for submitting a review and describing the problems you encountered. It seems,
   though, that these error messages are generated by the Facebook review process
   and not the plugin itself. Can you confirm? I’d like to properly assess if there
   is in fact something wrong with the RSS feed or not.
 * Occasionally, images can fail to load for several reasons (even if just temporary,
   network problems) and unless you’re able to re-submit for review, that error 
   will persist in the review report. Perhaps it’s a question of fixing any other
   errors/warnings that may be present and then re-submitting?
 * Are these the only errors provided by the review or are there others?
 *  Thread Starter [nhanhcentral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhanhcentral/)
 * (@nhanhcentral)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-2/#post-8270380)
 * Hi [@demoive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demoive/). There is only this
   error prevailing and I believe it is generated by the Facebook review process.
   If you have accessed the image link, you should see that the image is online 
   and the URL is working, so I am not sure why the RSS feed cannot download the
   image. I have tested it with URL’s from other websites and it worked.
    One time
   Images from my website could be downloaded, then I clicked on the Save button
   in the Instant Articles configuration and the images could not be downloaded 
   anymore.
 *  [Paulo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/demoive/)
 * (@demoive)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-2/#post-8313389)
 * [@nhanhcentral](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nhanhcentral/). I agree, 
   it sounds like this error is from the internal Facebook review process. In fact,
   it appears as if this plugin is working properly since it’s correctly generating
   the Instant Article markup and sending it to Facebook as expected. Would you 
   agree?
 * On this note, I’m curious if you had any experience regarding the plugin itself
   which influenced your rating score because I’d be interested in resolving that
   for you on this thread. If you’d like to [open a discussion in the forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/fb-instant-articles/)
   for the Facebook Review process, there might be additional help available from
   the community. But I don’t want to leave you empty handed, so below is my response
   to the error message from the one-time Facebook Review:
 * —
 * Yes I have observed the image is working properly. Downloading an image is a 
   pretty simple operation and given that there is a valid error message from Facebook’s
   attempt to download it, it’s likely not a bug, but an actual reason why Facebook
   can’t download the image.
 * Can you think of any configuration on your server which might make attempting
   to download an image generate a 403 (Forbidden) error? Perhaps there are settings
   which prevents raw downloading of assets? Or maybe prevents the download if the
   origin of the request is from a different country?

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