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Brass Contributor

Dec 10, 2018

Chrome & Edge Encounter 403 Forbidden Errors with SharePoint API Calls (e.g. People Picker)

The organization I support has a short history of having SharePoint 2016 site collections not work well with Chrome and Edge. JavaScript and out-of-the box API calls encounter 403 Forbidden when usin...

Iron Contributor

Dec 10, 2018

Hi Personally I have not encountered this issue in my 2016 farm but looks like other people are getting this error.

Please refer the below article where the REST API call throws the error.Let me know if this helps or we can troubleshoot it further.

https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/177350/rest-403-response-on-chrome-firefox-edge-but-not-ie

Darian Glover

Brass Contributor

Dec 10, 2018

As I stated in the post, SharePoint's built-in, out-of-the-box features suffer from this issue and the issue does not exist in my development environment. I don't see this as a development issue, it is clearly something on the server side.

Thanks Thuyavan Ganesan for the Google Search.