On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:22:43 -0500 Grant Taylor via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> On 7/11/23 8:44 AM, Brian Morrison wrote: > > 403 is temporary error, if it was permanent (which might be due to > > a ban) it would be a 5xx error. > I may need more coffee, but I don't think that's correct. > > Yes, in email, 4xy is temporary and 5xy is permanent. > > However in HTTP, 4xy and 5xy mean significantly different things than > they do in SMTP. > > Per Mozilla's HTTP response status code page (link below), 400-499 > (4xy) is "client (made an) error" response. > > 403 specifically is "The client does not have access rights to the > content; that is, it is unauthorized, so the server is refusing to > give the requested resource." > > Link - HTTP response status codes > - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status You're right, I was not thinking clearly enough. Of course it would really help if numerical error codes like these had consistent meanings but I imagine that ship is 30+ years over the horizon now. -- Brian Morrison _______________________________________________ Manage your clamav-users mailing list subscription / unsubscribe: https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav-documentation https://docs.clamav.net/#mailing-lists-and-chat
