| HTTP 403 - Forbidden - Scary isn't it? |
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This standard error message is generated by web servers when you try to access a file that has not been configured to recognize the process you used to access it. Either the site requires special access permission, such as a password, the sites configuration has been instructed to refuse access to your IP address or the server has a misconfigueration. Normally files are set with "read permissions" that allow all users for public access. What this code most likely means is that you can't view the page because the system does not know you.
A 403 - scares some people. The original engineers that developed the basic terminology that the Internet uses today, didbn't realize the legacy these terms would become. Terms like FOO, kill, terminate, Forbidden, THCIP, etc. are comfusing, make no sense to most of us and are sometimes threatening to the novice. Don't let them scare you. If you got a 403 with this site, try it again, making sure the address is correct. If you keep getting the 403 error, come back later. Another possibility is the servers are going through their periodic backup or restore functions. The engineers are messing with it or, God forbid and very unlikely the servers have gone off line. Oh yeah, one other problem that occurs. Our servers occasionally get so much leads coming in that the processing database servers slow way down. One of the reasons we are constantly buying more servers. NOTE from Tom and Mike: "Engineers are humans too, so please be patient"! Tom and Mike.
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