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Like others said, 401 Unauthorized really means unauthenticated. Authentication comes before Authorization, both in the process and alphabetically, and 401 comes before 403. Hope that helps.



I mean more that I always have to look it up to double check. But I like the tip to remember by thinking of the sequence and the numerical order. That does help!




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