Is anyone else getting this message?

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /newreply.php on this server."

When you try to reply to a thread?

Happened over and over when replying to the Two weeks thread- i determined was due to some bit of hidden code i was quoting? Just deleted stuff til it let me post-but there is a JIRA i think about a series of words appearing together that seem to bring it on...

Ah,

Thank you Amaranthim, this was bugging me. I'll rewrite my response.

I think it has to do with this

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-917

The following SQL combinations will cause a FORBIDDEN response.

"from" following "select" or "delete"

"set" following "update"

It does not matter how far apart the words are.

Because the LL web devs are too lazy to invest any time whatsoever on making the forums work correctly. I understand that it's insanely difficult to prevent all forms of sql injection, but LL have really taken the lazy way out : Lazy coding combined with "remove features until it's marginally safer"

That's absolutely right, Suezanne! I tried to reply to one thread and got that message repeatedly. Turns out I had a "from" a couple lines down from a "select". One I got rid of "select", my reply posted just fine.

I think there are also problems caused by using certain punctuation marks - I'm not sure what exactly, but several people have mentioned some, and I think I got the Forbidden message as a result of asterisks, slashes, or some such once or twice.

Yeaaahh... I wasn't able to post new threads for 4 days just because of the words I included in my posts! This is censorship!

Thanks so much for this post. I had the text "sellect xxx from the gear menu". I had already deleted a bunch of other stuff suspecting a problem like this, but without a clue, very difficult.

Regarding other problem characters ... in other forums talking about this issue, some suggested problems with things that could be interpreted as "relative path names" in UNIX, like dot-dot-slash.

* had to misspell the word "sellect" to get this to post. and take out the literal version of dot-dot-slash.

testing, testing.

edit: ... ah-ha... i am also chronically getting this message with my main account; i can't post any messages at all to the forum. i have none of the sql keywords in my posts. what's up?

I am not getting "Forbidden" I am getting a simple "Not Found". No matter how much I edit the post, it wont let me. No matter wether replying to an old thread or starting a new one.

This is ridiculous. Whoever is responsible for the forum better fix this fast because this is severly hindering community communications.

I think there's a new problem involving the use of less than signs. Put a space after any less than signs.

I'm not sure if that problem produces the different error message or not. There are recent threads on it pertaining to the need of putting a space after a less than sign when attempting to post a vector in LSL. These threads could be found by inspection by checking threads for the past week.

If that's not the "Not Found" problem, then you might try clearing your cookies and or your browser cache.

The forums have been extra bad in the past few weeks.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but some people were getting this error because they were using the Enhanced (wysiwyg) Editor for these forums. Once I switched to either the basic or standard editor, I stopped getting errors. (found in the User Control Panel, under Edit Options. It's the last box.)

No joy. My post doesn't contain any less than signs. I switched the editor to basic AND to standart. Still the same problem.

there's one involving the word "code" that I haven't been able to track down, and directory level commands like dot dot slash (which I reported 2 years ago) also trigger either the 403 or 404 messages.

Yep, just tried the . . / , got the 404

Can't keep 'em all straight anymore.

Plus, in addition to these content based malfunctions, the forum system just plain fails at times.

At least forums.secondlife.com doesn't times crash my browser like the blogs.secondlife.com does at times.

If the problem is content based, you can take a screenshot of the text that doesn't work, put it on Flicker, Photobucket, ImageShack, etc., and post an image of the text, or you could use a site like cl1p.net to store the text at and post a link, or you could post the question in Second Life Answers and post a link to here in that question and post a link to that question in here.