My primary account (Carl Metropolitan) has been unable to post to the forums for nearly a week now. Every time I try to post or reply, I get the following error:
Not Found
The requested URL /newreply.php was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2 Server at forums.secondlife.com Port 80
The other thing I noticed is that when I try to post as Carl Metropolitan, the background of the "Reply to Thread" window is white and the border of that window is tan. However, when I post as an alt, the border of the "Reply to Thread" window is light blue and the window itself is a slightly darker light blue.
I can't imagine any reason that my Carl Metropolitan account could have been banned. I've certainly received no communications from LL to that effect, and I have no problem logging on to SL as Carl Metropolitan.
I'm able to post as NCI Golem or Carl Henderson (I was lucky enough to snag my RL name as a SL account). I've tried posting the identical messages under Carl Metropolitan and NCI Golem, and the message went through as NCI Golem, but not as Carl Metropolitan. So the common forum error of accidentally using keywords that scare the database isn't the cause here.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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Carl Henderson
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07-02-2009 11:00
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Desmond Shang
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07-02-2009 11:03
It's a bug I think Carl.
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Imnotgoing Sideways
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07-02-2009 11:04
I ran into that when one of my posts appeared to look like an SQL messge and got blocked by the submit script. Other than that, I'd suggest a ticket to see if you been admin'd out of access. I severely doubt it. You'd have been contacted if that were true. (O.o)
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Nika Talaj
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07-02-2009 11:04
Have you tried completely deleting your browser's cache of cookies, pages, etc? (I think that's "Clear Private Data" in FireFox?)
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Meade Paravane
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07-02-2009 11:13
I get that whenever I do a < followed immediately by a 3.
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Ponsonby Low
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07-02-2009 11:24
My primary account (Carl Metropolitan) has been unable to post to the forums for nearly a week now. Every time I try to post or reply, I get the following error: Not Found The requested URL /newreply.php was not found on this server. Apache/2.2 Server at forums.secondlife.com Port 80 Carl, I made a similar thread about two weeks ago. The cause is something some Linden did to the Forums, and the cure is to change your settings (User CP --> Edit Options --> Miscellaneous Options) to either Basic or Standard. For some reason the Enhanced option keeps us from posting. Edit: Oops, I see Desmond already posted this solution. |
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Void Singer
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07-02-2009 11:31
in addition to the previous posts, here's the jira (and check the linked jiras)
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Marianne McCann
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07-02-2009 11:39
Ya, not banned - just bugged. Happens to me every so often too. :-/
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Imnotgoing Sideways
Can't outlaw cute! =^-^=
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07-02-2009 11:46
Hey, do we get on a list for posting in this thread? (^_^)
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Darien Caldwell
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07-02-2009 11:59
Happens if you try posting anything that even remotely resembles SQL code. I assume they have a ridiculously sensitive block against SQL injection attacks.
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Meade Paravane
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07-02-2009 12:02
Happens if you try posting anything that even remotely resembles SQL code. I assume they have a ridiculously sensitive block against SQL injection attacks. I thought those came back with permission denied or something similar, instead of page not found.. _____________________
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Ponsonby Low
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07-02-2009 12:03
in addition to the previous posts, here's the jira (and check the linked jiras) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-917 But notice he reported that he isn't getting the Forbidden message, but rather the Not Found message, which indicates that it's the 'no Enhanced' bug rather than some particular words or characters that he'd typed. |
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Carl Metropolitan
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07-02-2009 12:54
Thank you all. I think it worked!
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Talarus Luan
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07-02-2009 12:56
Also happens sometimes if you put html tags into your post, even fake ones.
Instead of fixing the forum software, they have modified their front end to reject anything that remotely looks like an attack; SQL keywords, HTML tags, etc. Their method of "rejection" is 503 errors and "page not found" errors. Makes perfect sense to me...  |
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Nyoko Salome
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testing testing
07-02-2009 13:11
standard interface... ;0
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Lance Corrimal
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07-02-2009 13:29
Carl, I made a similar thread about two weeks ago. The cause is something some Linden did to the Forums, and the cure is to change your settings (User CP --> Edit Options --> Miscellaneous Options) to either Basic or Standard. lets see if this helps, i have the same problem... edit: yay it does. |
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07-02-2009 13:54
But notice he reported that he isn't getting the Forbidden message, but rather the Not Found message, which indicates that it's the 'no Enhanced' bug rather than some particular words or characters that he'd typed. just making people aware of all the known ways it can go wrong (and why I suggested checking the linked articles)... the method of prevention being used by LL in this case is both ridiculous, and unnecessary... there are much easier solutions that are entirely transparent to the users, found freely on the web... script kiddies in grade school could do better. _____________________
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Nicole Portola
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07-02-2009 13:57
It's not banned if you can see it. One of mine is banned from resident answers and it doesn't even show up if that ones logged in.
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Cerise Sorbet
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07-02-2009 14:00
Hey, do we get on a list for posting in this thread? (^_^) I am making a blog and taking names right now. You are so on my list.  |
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Ponsonby Low
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07-02-2009 15:47
just making people aware of all the known ways it can go wrong (and why I suggested checking the linked articles)... Good point. the method of prevention being used by LL in this case is both ridiculous, and unnecessary... there are much easier solutions that are entirely transparent to the users, found freely on the web... script kiddies in grade school could do better. Yes, they haven't exactly covered themselves with glory here, but I guess we need to be grateful for whatever we get... |
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23rdDjin Negulesco
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07-02-2009 15:58
Thank you all. I think it worked! nope. i don't see any post there whatsoever...  _____________________
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Darien Caldwell
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07-02-2009 16:00
I thought those came back with permission denied or something similar, instead of page not found.. When I was trying to post my Google App Engine DNS service in the scripting forums, it kept saying not found. finally realized it was because of the SQL stuff. _____________________
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Snickers Snook
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07-02-2009 19:25
Hmmm, I've always been able to post just ..#*))(*Q!@@Q ....NO CARRIER PIGEON
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Jesse Barnett
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07-02-2009 20:19
But notice he reported that he isn't getting the Forbidden message, but rather the Not Found message, which indicates that it's the 'no Enhanced' bug rather than some particular words or characters that he'd typed. Actually it gets even better.............. You get the Forbidden message for SQL keywords. You can get Not Found for using the Enhanced wysiwig editor. AND for not having a space after an opening bracket. < 0,0,0> you get "Oops! This link appears to be broken." So much fun I pinged Blue about it and he didn't really care. _____________________
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07-03-2009 02:19
To improve the quality of postings to this forum I have raised a jira ( https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-010409? ) which will reject posts that have basic English grammatical and spelling errors in a similar fashion to the mechanisms mentioned in this thread. Please go there and vote now for this basic comprehensibility enhancement!
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