I was posting an excerpt from a news story.

“Not connected in”

If I use the slightly skewed double quote - ” - it works OK, as it did for you. If I use the purely vertical double quote - " - I get the 403 Forbidden error.

I was trying to help but I can’t find the ‘’ purely vertical double quote’’

Producing the slightly skewed one is a lot harder (I copied from your post).

A post below suggests it's a security feature. You did help by showing it's only certain types of quotes are involved.

Bizarre, indeed. Who knew that there at least two categories of "Forbidden"?

Too used to talking about "404 no such page", I guess.

and some characters are apparently forbidden, as is some HTML.

As an outside example, Mister Null has real problems with computers, as it's a reserved word.

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

I see that "not connected" is an SQL term. But it is, for some reason, the addition of "in" to that that causes the problem.

But I thought that would be off-topic.

But strange things do happen. I can't access archive.{md, ph, is } when using iCloud Private Relay, a kind of vpn.

When I was doing admin work, users would ask me to "fix the internet" when it went down. I would check our stuff and wait it out. Usually a fiber cable cut by bulldozers somewhere in San Jose or a router programmed wrong in a data center in an unknown location.

Monitoring systems pick those up and alert staff. I worked on one and it was interesting to implement.

There's a history behind monitoring equipment and the Perl programming language. For computer geeks. Later.