Facebook Sharing Debugger returns HTTP 418 for my website

[SakibChy]

Website URL

https://perfumezonectg.com/

Error Message

HTTP 418 Bad Response Code

Other Information

Hello InfinityFree Support,

My website is https://perfumezonectg.com/.

The website opens normally in my browser, but Meta’s Facebook Sharing Debugger returns an HTTP 418 Bad Response Code when trying to scrape the homepage.

Because of this, Facebook cannot retrieve my Open Graph metadata, and the website preview does not show the correct title, description, or image.

Could you please help me determine why Meta’s crawler is receiving HTTP 418 and whether this restriction can be resolved on my hosting plan?

Thank you.

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[Lemni]

Beep boop, I’m a bot! I dug through the forum to get you started. I sometimes get things wrong though, so do with this what you will until a human has a look.

This looks like InfinityFree’s browser security system, which is on every free hosting account. It checks that a visitor can run JavaScript and accept cookies, and Facebook’s crawler can’t do either. The knowledge base article lists link previews for Facebook, WhatsApp, Discord and X as something that doesn’t work, because the Open Graph tags are never read. An older topic with the same 418 in Facebook’s debugger was answered with this same explanation.

The check covers every URL and can’t be turned off for one path, user agent or IP address. Using your own domain doesn’t change that, and the article says the check is mandatory on free hosting. The page doesn’t contain a workaround for link previews. The article says premium hosting protects your site with less restrictive methods, so automated tools work normally there.

Here’s the article:

Browser Security System - Features and Limitations

InfinityFree uses a security system on all free hosting accounts to ensure your website is accessed by real web browsers, not bots or automated scripts. While this protects your site from malicious traffic, it can affect certain types of access. How the security system works The system checks that visitors can execute JavaScript and accept cookies: features that all modern web browsers support. This verification happens automatically and most website visitors will never notice it. You may occa…

And here’s the earlier topic with the same 418 in Facebook’s debugger:

Bad http response 418 "teapot..."

Website URL https://herblocks.rf.gd/product.php?id=10 Error Message Bad Response Code URL returned a bad HTTP response code. Other Information This error is returned from Facebook url debugger, it’s returning 418 error code. I want it to return 200 instead. How can I do so? Plus I am trying to get my webpage to show preview when i share it’s link on social media platforms and I think this error is getting in the way.

Your site opening fine in your browser fits this, since a real browser passes the check. Your Open Graph tags may be perfectly correct. Facebook just can’t get to them.