Deny Access (403)

Category: Access

Purpose: Determines whether requests will be rejected with a 403 Forbidden response.

Valid values are:

Enabled Result

Yes

Causes all requests that satisfy the matching criteria to be rejected with a 403 Forbidden response.

No

Restores the default behavior. The default behavior is to allow the origin server to determine the type of response that will be returned.

Default Behavior: Disabled

One possible use for this feature is to associate it with a Request Header Wildcard match condition to block access to HTTP referrers that are using inline links to your content.