Re^2: Need to respond with a 403 status code?

I had read the other thread, but didn't follow everything, given my knowledge level...

So if the header contains the 403 code, then a bot might hopefully interpret that correctly and go away (hopefully!)?

BTW, There are certain types of data errors that I want to reply with this fake reply, while for other 'normal' errors, I have a nice formatted page that I use, so determining which to send needs to occur within my CGI script, as I see it.

I'm also presuming that I could output a minimal "Access Forbidden" page with this response code, so a browser user would see that?
As the standard config error page (I believe) gives an email addr, which I don't want to provide in this case.

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Re^3: Need to respond with a 403 status code?
by grep (Monsignor) on Apr 19, 2007 at 17:23 UTC

So if the header contains the 403 code, then a bot might hopefully interpret that correctly and go away (hopefully!)?

One would think so, but at the very least you're not wasting bandwidth sending real content.

grep

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