ECSA v10: EC-Council Certified Security Analyst v10

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An employee is attempting to access his company's internal website. When he opened a webpage, he received an error message stating Proxy Authentication Required. He reported the issue to the company's IT department. The IT staff explained that this HTTP error means the server cannot process the request because appropriate client authentication credentials are missing for a proxy server that processes requests between clients and the server.

Identify the HTTP error code that corresponds to the error message received by the employee?

Explanation

HTTP status code 407, Proxy Authentication Required, indicates that a client must provide valid authentication credentials to the proxy server before the request can proceed.

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