Jock3r Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Hello, Is there a way to have an application be shown as offline to guests but not throw a 403 error? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Can you say more as to what you are trying to do? If they don't have permission to an area, a 403 response is correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adlago Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 20 hours ago, Jock3r said: Hello, Is there a way to have an application be shown as offline to guests but not throw a 403 error? I use an additional menu - for guests only, for example "who is online" I use a page with a registration invitation and 5 seconds then this page redirects to Registration. Offline is not a good solution because it will drive guests away from your site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock3r Posted April 3, 2020 Author Share Posted April 3, 2020 Well, the specific error is fine as I see it, the only issue is the 403 error it gives which isn't "right". This makes SEO worse as crawlers see those links as "broken" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 On 4/3/2020 at 1:24 PM, Jock3r said: Well, the specific error is fine as I see it, the only issue is the 403 error it gives which isn't "right". This makes SEO worse as crawlers see those links as "broken" This is not true. If a user does not have permission to access a page, then a 403 response is correct. It would be far worse to send an error message with a 200 response because then you are telling the visitor (spider) "this page is being delivered correctly and here is its content". Perhaps you can simply not show the links to these pages to guests if you are concerned about them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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