412 Precondition Failed indicates that one or more conditions in the request header fields were not met by the server.
If-Match
or If-Unmodified-Since
header that fails validationThe request is rejected because one or more conditions are not met. The user may need to refresh data or retry with updated request parameters.
GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: hdu.com Accept: */* User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; [email protected])
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>412 Request Blocked</title> <link href="/icons/expired/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="notice"> <h1>412 REQUEST BLOCKED</h1> <h2>Precondition failed: the web server has blocked this request for security reasons.</h2> </div> <div> <p>You may want to contact the webmaster and inform them <br /> of the time the error occurred, as well as anything you might have <br /> done that may have caused the error.</p> <br> <p>If you are the owner of the website, you can get more information about <br /> the issue and how to resolve it in the article <a href="https://tickets.suresupport.com/faq/article-1596/en">Error "412 Precondition Failed" (mod_security2)</a>.<br /></p> </div> </body> </html>