RSS URL show 403 Error in Google Console

Bug
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Google still crawling rss feed after delete topic and Showing 403 instead of 404.

Find Report at Coverage section > Excluded > “Blocked due to access forbidden (403)”

When Topic is deleted show this message “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.” (Picture 1)

picture 1
picture 11009×135 6.87 KB

When check rss feed for same delete URL then It shows “Sorry, we couldn’t load that topic, possibly due to a connection problem. Please try again. If the problem persists, let us know.” (Picture 2)

picture 2
picture 2989×265 17.3 KB

Example URL:
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-new-users-to-specific-groups/110875

Example URL for RSS:
`https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-add-new-users-to-specific-groups/110875.rss

If above example URL is delete then it will show “picture 2” message on RSS url.

Please correct me if I am misunderstood anything.

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That topic is not deleted. What exactly is it that you are reporting here?

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I think she means that when she deletes a topic it gives a 404 error, as expected, for the normal topic URL, but a 403 error for the associated .rss URL, and that this is confusing Google’s web crawler.

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Yes, at below path found .rss URL showing 403 error instead 404 error.

Google Search Console > Coverage > Excluded > “Blocked due to access forbidden (403)”

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Adding a pr-welcome tag here.

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Actually given our recent Google shenanigans maybe we should prioritize this one @sam I think it might be easy? Topic returns 404, the rss feed should as well.

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I see, @vinothkannans can you fix is so deleted topic .rss returns a 404 when deleted?

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This is already fixed in

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/73546365028a21bab90d7fd3bf5975a577bb5e7d

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