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highplainsdem

(62,422 posts) Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:58 PM 15 hrs ago

I'm getting 403 Forbidden error messages with both board posts and email.

No idea if this will post...

And it did, but I'm still getting the error messages in GD and mail.

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I'm getting 403 Forbidden error messages with both board posts and email. (Original Post) highplainsdem 15 hrs ago OP

It posted. SheltieLover 15 hrs ago #1

I just tried posting a reply here, with the text of the message I tried to post in GD, and got the 403 error response. highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #3

Try cleaning your browser cache LuvLoogie 15 hrs ago #2

I did, but that still didn't help and I got the error message again. Then I finally tried copying the long highplainsdem 15 hrs ago #4

I just did more checking of that short paragraph I had to omit, and it seems even weirder now. The highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #5

I did a Google search and got this explanation LuvLoogie 14 hrs ago #6

Thanks! But why would the placement just before or one space before that particular word highplainsdem 14 hrs ago #7

I got some yesterday, but not today and I was using quotation marks. surfered 12 hrs ago #8

Was anything you were trying to post completely blocked? highplainsdem 11 hrs ago #9

Yes. 403 message. Couldn't post surfered 9 hrs ago #10

SheltieLover

(80,917 posts)

1. It posted.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 02:59 PM

15 hrs ago

Np here.

highplainsdem

(62,422 posts)

3. I just tried posting a reply here, with the text of the message I tried to post in GD, and got the 403 error response.

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:07 PM

15 hrs ago

But this will Preview, so it looks like it will post.

LuvLoogie

(8,841 posts)

2. Try cleaning your browser cache

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:05 PM

15 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(62,422 posts)

4. I did, but that still didn't help and I got the error message again. Then I finally tried copying the long

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:33 PM

15 hrs ago

post I didn't want to rewrite, which I'd saved, into a new message, paragraph by paragraph, checking to see if it would preview after each paragraph, and it previewed just fine till I got to one short paragraph near the end. I decided it wasn't essential, deleted it, and was able to copy the rest of the message and post it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221166196

One of the weirdest glitches I've run into here.

highplainsdem

(62,422 posts)

5. I just did more checking of that short paragraph I had to omit, and it seems even weirder now. The

Reply to LuvLoogie (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 03:54 PM

14 hrs ago

problem seems to have been the quotation mark before a short, partial-sentence quote, starting with the word between. If I delete the quotation mark, the paragraph will preview. If I leave the quotation mark in, or even leave it in but put a space between the quotation mark and between, I get the error message again. If I put it anywhere else in the sentence, it'll preview just fine.

LuvLoogie

(8,841 posts)

6. I did a Google search and got this explanation

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 11, 2026, 04:02 PM

14 hrs ago

A 403 Forbidden error triggered by quotation marks (single or double) usually occurs because a website's security system, such as a Web Application Firewall (WAF) or ModSecurity, interprets the marks as a potential SQL injection or Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack.
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