Title: Communication Error Response Code: 403 error
Last modified: April 1, 2020

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# Communication Error Response Code: 403 error

 *  Resolved [yourstile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yourstile/)
 * (@yourstile)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/)
 * while saving, i have this Error: Communication Error exits
    Response Code: 403
   error and saving of files stops
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n<TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE
   >\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY>\r\n<H1>Forbidden</H1>\r\nYou do not have permission to
   access this document.\r\n<P>\r\n<HR>\r\n<ADDRESS>\r\nThe Web Server\r\n</ADDRESS
   >\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>\r\n\r\n<!–\r\n – Unfortunately, Microsoft has added a
   clever new\r\n – \”feature\” to Internet Explorer. If the text of\r\n – an error’s
   message is \”too small\”, specifically\r\n – less than 512 bytes, Internet Explorer
   returns\r\n – its own error message. You can turn that off,\r\n – but it’s pretty
   tricky to find switch called\r\n – \”smart error messages\”. That means, of course,\
   r\n – that short error messages are censored by default.\r\n – IIS always returns
   error messages that are long\r\n – enough to make Internet Explorer happy. The\
   r\n – workaround is pretty simple: pad the error\r\n – message with a big comment
   like this to push it\r\n – over the five hundred and twelve bytes minimum.\r\
   n – Of course, that’s exactly what you’re reading\r\n – right now.\r\n –>\r\n”,”
   status”:403,”statusText”:”error”}
 * can someone help me

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 *  Plugin Author [watchful](https://wordpress.org/support/users/watchful/)
 * (@watchful)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-12725500)
 * Sorry for the delay on this. Are you still having this error?
 *  [ricarod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ricarod/)
 * (@ricarod)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-12944103)
 * I am having this issue yes. I will uninstall due timing here but wanted to report
   it back as well.
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \”-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//
   EN\”>\n<html><head>\n<title>403 Forbidden</title>\n</head><body>\n<h1>Forbidden
   </h1>\n<p>You don’t have permission to access this resource.</p>\n</body></html
   >\n”,”status”:403,”statusText”:”Forbidden”}
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by [ricarod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ricarod/).
 *  Plugin Support [jimiero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimiero/)
 * (@jimiero)
 * [5 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-12944683)
 * Hi,
 * Afraid that’s an error coming from your website, I’d suggest you to check and
   see what’s blocking the access to the page
 *  [rfs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfs/)
 * (@rfs)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-13031891)
 * As you can see…
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”{\”apbct\”:{\”blocked\”:true,\”comment\”:\”***
   Forbidden. You submitted too quickly. You may try again in a few seconds. Message
   seems to be spam. ***\”,\”stop_script\”:0}}”,”responseJSON”:{“apbct”:{“blocked”:
   true,”comment”:”*** Forbidden. You submitted too quickly. You may try again in
   a few seconds. Message seems to be spam. ***”,”stop_script”:0}},”status”:403,”
   statusText”:”Forbidden”}
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”{\”apbct\”:{\”blocked\”:true,\”comment\”:\”***
   Forbidden. You sent forms too often. Please wait a few minutes. ***\”,\”stop_script\”:
   0}}”,”responseJSON”:{“apbct”:{“blocked”:true,”comment”:”*** Forbidden. You sent
   forms too often. Please wait a few minutes. ***”,”stop_script”:0}},”status”:403,”
   statusText”:”Forbidden”}
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”{\”apbct\”:{\”blocked\”:true,\”comment\”:\”***
   Forbidden. You submitted too quickly. You may try again in a few seconds. Message
   seems to be spam. ***\”,\”stop_script\”:0}}”,”responseJSON”:{“apbct”:{“blocked”:
   true,”comment”:”*** Forbidden. You submitted too quickly. You may try again in
   a few seconds. Message seems to be spam. ***”,”stop_script”:0}},”status”:403,”
   statusText”:”Forbidden”}
 * {“readyState”:4,”responseText”:”{\”apbct\”:{\”blocked\”:true,\”comment\”:\”***
   Forbidden. Sender blacklisted. ***\”,\”stop_script\”:0}}”,”responseJSON”:{“apbct”:{“
   blocked”:true,”comment”:”*** Forbidden. Sender blacklisted. ***”,”stop_script”:
   0}},”status”:403,”statusText”:”Forbidden”}
 * … I’ve had a variety of error messages and more that I didn’t take note of.
 * I see various attempts at backup in the content folder w/ names such as .xcloner-
   006f0 but never got a message of a successful backup.
 * I was using X-Cloner a few years ago and it worked fine. But apparently it has
   been improved so much that it no longer works at all.
 * I’m currently running wp v5.4.1 but have been trying to get XC to work for the
   last few months w/o success.
 * I previously uninstalled – some years ago – the earlier version of XC that worked
   fine – until it didn’t – and recently installed the current watchful v4.2.0.
 * Suggestions?
 *  Plugin Support [jimiero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimiero/)
 * (@jimiero)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-13033037)
 * Hello,
 * What browser are you using when testing? Looking on the error you posted when
   you opend this ticket, seems Internet Explorer, can you try with different browser
   like Chrome or Mozilla Firefox and see how it goes?
 *  Plugin Support [jimiero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimiero/)
 * (@jimiero)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/communication-error-response-code-403-error/#post-13220579)
 * Closing this for inactivity, if you still have issues, please open a separate
   ticket.

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