Anyone else getting "403 Forbidden" errors when posting or editing?

[Initech]

I've had this happen today on several threads / posts, and I've tried it with two accounts and on multiple browsers - Firefox, Chrome and Edge. Does anyone have any solutions? I have e-mailed the admins about it.

[True Blue American]

1. Yes, I did for a while.

[appalachiablue]

2. Yesterday evening for a while when editing.

I don't know what it's about..

[Initech]

3. Yeah I was having problems with the Top 10 Idiots account

I've been trying to preview this week's edition and I can't seem to get past the 403 screen no matter what I do.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. That sounds bad. I had problem with 403 while replying...

to something that wasn't that important anyway.

Between my phone, my tablet, my computer and whatever DU does with the electrons it runs into, it just didn't seem worth worrying about.

[EarlG]

4. A minor update to our firewall likely caused this

I've been experiencing the issue myself. The good news is that the firewall adapts over time so hopefully you won't run into the errors for much longer. I haven't had the problem today.

[consider_this]

6. attempting to post - my last were all 403'd so far

if this works, can you explain what 'adapts'? are you saying we each will get a temporary period of time where we face 403s then it resolves?

[consider_this]

7. oooo - it worked this time!

[consider_this]

8. OK - super weird - still getting 403'd elsewhere on other post attempts

yet not in this thread - curiouser and curiouser

[Initech]

9. Yeah I'm still getting them.

Any word on when this will be fixed?

[Emrys]

11. I've just frustratingly had this error repeatedly over the last hour or so.

I was lucky that I got wise after the 403 error showed up a few times and lost me the long post I was drafting, and copied it to my clipboard.

I tried logging out and logging in, but I'm still unable to start an OP on the United Kingdom Group at time of writing (I'm also wondering whether I'm able to reply to posts at the moment - we'll see if this gets through!).

[Emrys]

15. This problem is still happening constantly overnight and again today.

As a workaround, I tried posting a "dummy" OP - just a full point in the subject line - which went through OK. Then I tried to edit my post to add the text I wanted to appear, and got the 403 Forbidden message instead.

I reset my router to refresh my IP address (I'm in the UK) in case the old one was triggering the firewall filter, but it made no difference.

Are you going to do anything to fix this, or is it just a question of your - and our - waiting and hoping it fixes itself? It's very frustrating indeed.

[question everything]

22. Got it this evening in two instances.

[billh58]

10. Yes, I am unable to

start a new post in the Discussion forum. I get the 403 Forbidden error on both preview and post.

[dweller]

12. Yep, on this post

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216018782


✌🏻

[Tomconroy]

13. I got it a couple of times today trying to post replies

Then it went away.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. I got several of them last night and so did someone I had exchanges with here

It previously happened when the admins were doing maintenance here, but this was very late at night. Good idea to alert the admins, thanks!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. I can't post anything this morning. Neither on computer nor via phone.

Last edited Sat Nov 6, 2021, 12:34 PM - Edit history (1)

I can post responses, but cannot create a thread.

[Jilly_in_VA]

17. Yes, it's suddenly happening to me today

I had posted several times this morning and now all of a sudden I'm getting a 403. It's very frustrating. WTF? I use Vivaldi, a derivative of Opera, and this is the first time I've had the problem.

[marybourg]

18. I'm getting it today when trying to reply

[Emrys]

19. Still happening here.

There's not much point to a forum if you can't post to it!

[zanana1]

20. "Forbidden" sounds so dictatorish.

I think "HALT" might be better.

[relayerbob]

21. Yep, getting it too

But random

[ItsjustMe]

23. After making one post this evening

I haven't been able to create a thread for the past 30 minutes.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Starting to confirm that some of it seems to be related to post size

whether it's an OP or a reply. Editing previous large OPs or replies (pre-Nov. 4 - the last big one I was able to edit) will generate a guaranteed 403 and posting large OPs and/or replies will also generate one.

Not sure what the number-of-characters (or perhaps actual post size in KB/MB) cut-off limit is but aside from random occurrences creating new posts that don't fit that "large" criteria, my other posts haven't been impacted.

[Rhiannon12866]

26. I got another one last night on a reply that was only 2 lines

I tried starting over 4 or 5 times, but kept getting the same error.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. What I have done in that case

is to kill that session and create a new reply with the same content and it seems to "go".

It's like the session that generated the 403 (even with something that was "short" ) got interrupted/corrupted or something and will forever give the error, so I just close it and do a new reply.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. That's what I kept doing, but I still got the error

I even changed what I said, but that didn't work, either. So I finally gave up and tried again a couple of hours later and it worked.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. Wow okay.

Hopefully Elad can comb through and see if there is anything that can help. At least I haven't seen anymore Error 520s or Error 524s like this past spring.

[Rhiannon12866]

30. It finally seemed to work when I waited it out

And I also got one of those 520 errors the night I got all the 403s.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. Could be some "session" needed to age out

before you could try again. The 520s are Cloudflare errors (I think the hosting site).

[Rhiannon12866]

32. And tonight I got a duplicate post - though I have noticed a lot of them recently

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Thankfully I haven't had the duplicate posts

I have maybe had a handful the entire time I've been on DU. I've seen others who constantly get them though.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. I'm on MIRT and kept getting them over the weekend on long posts

So I broke them up into shorter posts and wasn't getting them anymore. But tonight they're back, finally gave up on a short reply I tried 4 or 5 times that was only 2 lines. So I'm still getting them.

[Spazito]

34. I am getting them as well...

I'm on MIRT and a host and it is very frustrating. If I only type something in the 'reply title' it goes through but if I add anything in the body I get the 403 error.

[BlackSkimmer]

35. I replied on another thread yesterday that I hadn't gotten the dreaded 403.

Since then, it’s happened 3 times.

[hlthe2b]

36. getting them constantly this morning on certain threads. (9:29 ET, 11/10/2021)

Firefox, Windows 10

[Omaha Steve]

37. It is now doing it to me

I can't post in LBN.