Receiving a 401 response is the server telling you, “you aren’t authenticated–either not authenticated at all or authenticated incorrectly–but please reauthenticate and try again.” To help you out, it will always include a WWW-Authenticate header that describes how to authenticate.
This is a response generally returned by your web server, not your web application.
It’s also something very temporary; the server is asking you to try again.(暂时不能访问,再多试几次)
So, for authorization I use the
403 Forbidden
response. It’s permanent, it’s tied to my application logic, and it’s a more concrete response than a 401.
Receiving a 403 response is the server telling you, “I’m sorry. I know who you are–I believe who you say you are–but you just don’t have permission to access this resource. Maybe if you ask the system administrator nicely, you’ll get permission. But please don’t bother me again until your predicament changes.”
(你没有这个权限,不要再来烦我了)