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

[highplainsdem]

No idea if this will post...

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

[SheltieLover]

1. It posted.

Np here.

[highplainsdem]

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.

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

[LuvLoogie]

2. Try cleaning your browser cache

[highplainsdem]

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

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]

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

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]

6. I did a Google search and got this explanation

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.
forum.ait-pro.com

For Website Visitors (Trying to submit or search)
If you are seeing this error when typing into a search bar or form:
Remove the marks: Try searching or submitting without any quotation marks or apostrophes.

[highplainsdem]

7. Thanks! But why would the placement just before or one space before that particular word

"between

make it happen?

And it didn't happen just now, when I typed that in.

[surfered]

8. I got some yesterday, but not today and I was using quotation marks.

[highplainsdem]

9. Was anything you were trying to post completely blocked?

[surfered]

10. Yes. 403 message. Couldn't post