What are some common reasons for receiving a 403 Forbidden error when using reserved characters in a CURL GET request in PHP?

When using reserved characters in a CURL GET request in PHP, you may receive a 403 Forbidden error because the server may interpret these characters as malicious or unauthorized. To solve this issue, you can encode the reserved characters using the `urlencode()` function before including them in the CURL request. 

$url = 'https://example.com/api/data?param=' . urlencode($param);

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if(curl_errno($ch)){
    echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($ch);
}

curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

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403 Forbidden CURL GET request reserved characters PHP

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