[aerogear-dev] [auth] 401 vs. 403

Matthias Wessendorf matzew at apache.org
Tue Oct 2 06:56:02 EDT 2012


Hi,

I noticed that with Amazon's S3 (for instance) they return 403 when
you are not authorized. Not really sure, but forbidden (403) is
perhaps fine when accessing a protected REST endpoint (versus 401) ?

Thoughts?

-Matthias

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