# Objective
Fixes#19029 (also maybe sorta #18002, but we may want to handle the SPA
issue I outlined there more gracefully?)
## Solution
The most minimal / surgical approach I could think of, hopefully
cherry-pickable for a point release.
It seems that it's not *entirely* crazy for web services to return 403
for an item that was not found. Here's an example from [Amazon
CloudFront
docs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/http-403-permission-denied.html#s3-origin-403-error).
If it is somewhat common for web services to behave this way, then I
think it's best to also treat these responses as if they were "not
found."
I was previously of the opinion that any 400 level error "might as well"
get this treatment, but I'm now thinking that's probably overkill and
there are quite a few 400 level statuses that would indicate some
problem that needs to be fixed, and interpreting these as "not found"
might add confusion to the debugging process.
## Testing
Tested this with a web server that returns 403 for requests to meta
files.
```bash
cargo run -p build-wasm-example -- --api webgl2 sprite && \
open "http://localhost:4000" && \
python3 test_403.py examples/wasm
```
`test_403.py`:
```python
from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
import os
import sys
class CustomHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
if self.path.endswith(".meta"):
self.send_response(403)
self.send_header("Content-type", "text/plain")
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(b"403 Forbidden: Testing.\n")
else:
super().do_GET()
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) != 2:
print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <directory>")
sys.exit(1)
os.chdir(sys.argv[1])
server_address = ("", 4000)
httpd = HTTPServer(server_address, CustomHandler)
httpd.serve_forever()
```
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Co-authored-by: Alice Cecile <alice.i.cecile@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ben Frankel <ben.frankel7@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: François Mockers <francois.mockers@vleue.com>
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