Comment on 451 error on Lemmy.zip media? ("Unavailable due to legal reasons")
frongt@lemmy.zip 10 hours agoNo, 400-series errors are user errors. Not that you necessarily did something wrong, but the server did everything right. 500-series errors mean the server itself fucked up.
In this case, the error isn’t very different from 403 forbidden, except it specifies it’s forbidden by law, not just server policy.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
“Umm akshualy, it starts with a ‘4’ so it must be the users fault cloudflare detected csam on the site they were trying to visit”
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
The user erred in attempting to access a forbidden resource, yes. The server was perfectly capable of providing it, but it refused. That’s how HTTP status codes work.