Title: 403 error seems wrong
Last modified: December 12, 2021

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# 403 error seems wrong

 *  Resolved [beatty67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beatty67/)
 * (@beatty67)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-seems-wrong/)
 * Hi,
 * The site I’m working on got hacked and so I’m cleaning up a bunch of stuff and
   am using your awesome plugin to help me along. There’s a persistent 403 error
   that shows up on the page in question but when I look at the url and compare 
   it to the live url on a browser tab showing a real! live! website that’s not 
   broken? It looks identical. And the link itself delivers me to the People magazine
   page. Is this something to ignore or am I missing something?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2F403-error-seems-wrong%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Patrick – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudevsupport12/)
 * (@wpmudevsupport12)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-seems-wrong/#post-15155663)
 * Hi [@beatty67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beatty67/)
 * I hope you are doing well.
 * I did a look at the link from the page and it is indeed getting a 403 when we
   make a cURL request to the link, same method that the Broken Link Checker will
   use:
 *     ```
       $ curl -IL https://pa+++.com/442927/jerylbrunner/spotlight-co-star-neal-huff-why-didnt-the-church-treat-abusers-as-criminals/
       HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
       Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:23:10 GMT
       Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
       Connection: close
       CF-Chl-Bypass: 1
       ```
   
 * It mean that site is not accepting the request, but as we can confirm it works
   for regular users you can ignore the reported URL.
 * Best Regards
    Patrick Freitas
 *  Thread Starter [beatty67](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beatty67/)
 * (@beatty67)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-seems-wrong/#post-15155809)
 * Hi Patrick,
 * Cool. Thanks much for your help.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-error-seems-wrong/#post-15155809)
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