Does 403 really mean broken?

  • I get a lot of 403 ‘errors’ when I use Link Checker. If I click on the links they work fine, so they’re not really broken are they?

    You see them a lot on media and news sites.

    403 usually indicates the site is set up to stop bots, and, I guess, tools like Link Checker from browsing content, probably because they fear being scraped.

    Are they really a problem that we need to worry about or can we ignore them?

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