HTTP response contains status code 403 with the description Forbidden

[Former Member]

Hi

We were running a scenario with a reasonably big volume of messages R/3 --> ABAP PROXY -->XI --> JDBC Adapter --> SQLDB

Towards the end of the run - we noticed errors in the different queues in the call Adapter - portion in SXMB_MONI on the integration server -

<b>HTTP response contains status code 403 with the description Forbidden</b> - The full contents of the error message in moni is given below :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?><!-- Call Adapter --> <SAP:Error xmlns:SAP="http://sap.com/xi/XI/Message/30" xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" SOAP:mustUnderstand="1"><SAP:Category>XIServer</SAP:Category><SAP:Code area="INTERNAL">HTTP_RESP_STATUS_CODE_NOT_OK</SAP:Code><SAP:P1>403 </SAP:P1><SAP:P2>Forbidden</SAP:P2><SAP:P3/><SAP:P4/><SAP:AdditionalText>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt;

&lt;html&gt;

&lt;head&gt;

&lt;title&gt;Error Report&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;style&gt;

td {font-family : Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size : 14px;}

A:link

A:visited

A:active

&lt;/style&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" rightmargin="0"&gt;

&lt;table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" height="75"&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;

&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" height="48"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica" size="4" color="#666666"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;403 &amp;nbsp Forbidden&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#3F73A3"&gt;

&lt;td height="23" width="84"&gt;&lt;img width=1 height=1 border=0 alt=""&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;td height="23"&gt;&lt;img width=1 height=1 border=0 alt=""&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;td align="right" height="23"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica" size="2" color="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SAP J2EE Engine/6.40&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#9DCDFD"&gt;

&lt;td height="4" colspan="3"&gt;&lt;img width=1 height=1 border=0 alt=""&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;

&lt;table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" height="75"&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;

&lt;td align="left" colspan="2" height="48"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You are not authorized to view the requested resource.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;

&lt;td align="left" valign="top" height="48"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica" size="2" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Details:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;td align="left" valign="top" height="48"&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000"&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;No details available&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;

&lt;/tr&gt;

&lt;/body&gt;

&lt;/html&gt;

</SAP:AdditionalText><SAP:ApplicationFaultMessage namespace=""/><SAP:Stack>HTTP response contains status code 403 with the description Forbidden

XML element Envelope missing in SOAP message header (SAP XI Extension)

</SAP:Stack><SAP:Retry>M</SAP:Retry></SAP:Error>

Now, I have checked authorization profile of XIISUSER - the necessary authorizations are there - once I restarted the error messages - the scenario went through -

What could be the reason for this random run-time error - This is a critical issue - would appreciate any pointers / tips as to what could be causing this ?

[moorthy]

Hi,

This error may be because of Inactive Services in internet communication framework-

Go to SICF transaction and activate the services. Have a look into SAP note-517484

SO because of huge message this may be the reason.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Moorthy