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I get the error: HTTP Error 406 - Not acceptable Print

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A client can indicate to the Web server characteristics of the data it will accept back from the Web server. This is done using 'accept headers' of the following types:

* Accept: The MIME types accepted by the client. For example, a browser may only accept back types of data (HTML files, GIF files etc.) it knows how to process.

* Accept-Charset: The character sets accepted by the client.

* Accept-Encoding: The data encoding accepted by the client e.g. the file formats it understands.

* Accept-Language: The natural languages (English, German etc.) accepted by the client.

* Accept-Ranges: Whether the client accepts ranges of bytes from the resource i.e. a portion of the resource.

If the Web server detects that the data it wants to return is not acceptable to the client, it returns a header containing the 406 error code.

What to do ?

Please contact support, this error can also be caused due to security setting on the server, it should not happen, but if it does our technical specialist will be able to solve this issue.

All pages that are prevented from loading by mod_security will have a 406 error.

In all cases this means something in your website did trigger our security measures and you will need to contact support to get it fixed.

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