feign.FeignException$Forbidden: [403 Forbidden] encountered when running on Java 8?

[PLT875]

No issue on Java 11

Feign core version is feign-core:11.7

Encountered the error when running on Java 8. Is Java 8 not fully supported: https://github.com/OpenFeign/feign#java-version-compatibility

feign.FeignException$Forbidden: [403 Forbidden] during [POST] ........

  at feign.FeignException.clientErrorStatus(FeignException.java:217) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.FeignException.errorStatus(FeignException.java:194) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.FeignException.errorStatus(FeignException.java:185) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.codec.ErrorDecoder$Default.decode(ErrorDecoder.java:92) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.AsyncResponseHandler.handleResponse(AsyncResponseHandler.java:96) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.SynchronousMethodHandler.executeAndDecode(SynchronousMethodHandler.java:138) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.SynchronousMethodHandler.invoke(SynchronousMethodHandler.java:89) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]
        at feign.ReflectiveFeign$FeignInvocationHandler.invoke(ReflectiveFeign.java:100) ~[feign-core-11.7.jar:na]

[kdavisk6]

This is probably related to the Client you are using. The result being logged is what the Client returned. I recommend trying to isolate what's happening in the request handling.