5 Most common website errors.

Perhaps you remember the days of rabbit-ear TVs and local broadcasting. You may have been watching the news or your favourite program when, bam, a “technical difficulties” error would appear. The internet is not immune to error, also. The following are the most common website errors that appear and what they mean. 

1. HTTP Error 401 - You shall not pass

If this error is seen, it means a client does not hold permission to view the website’s content due to an error in their request.

2. Error 400 - It’s you, not me.
This error appears when a request that is made on behalf of the client is incorrect. This can be something like a mistake in typing out the URL or uploading a file that exceeds the allowed size limits. 

3. Error 404 - Don’t break my link, my achy breaky link.
Sometimes pages are deleted from the internet without their links being removed, also. When you click on a broken link, you receive a 404 message because there is no website at the address.

4. Error 403 - Forbidden Fruit

This is an instance where the request from the client is understood by the server, yet access isn’t granted. 

5. Error 500 - She can’t take any more, Captain!

These are internal errors. This error appears most commonly when a web server is overloaded with requests and cannot handle the volume. However, this error is a “catch-all” issued for any unexpected situation where a request cannot be processed.