title: Public LinkedIn profile url returns server Status code 999
body: <p>LinkedIn Consumer Support asked me to add this question here for #LinkedIn developpers to answer this.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen there are multiple questions about this 999 status code, but they are all API related. My question is not API related.</p>
  
  <p>Here it is. On my website I have a link to my public LinkedIn profile: <a href="https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jpcornelissen/nl" rel="noreferrer">https://nl.linkedin.com/in/jpcornelissen/nl</a>
  The broken link checker plugin on my website tells me that this link is broken with the error: SERVER RESPONSE: HTTP/1.1 999 Request denied</p>
  
  <p>Why is that? The page is accessible so it should return status code 200 not 999. Status 999 is not even an existing http status code.</p>
  
  <p>The issue is not plugin related. You also get the 999 status code if you check with <a href="http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/" rel="noreferrer">http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/</a></p>
  
  <p>Regards</p>