Help: I can't post pasted messages.

[Shuram Gudatetris]

One of my favorite things to do on the Watch is participate in the Bad Writing Contest. I usually work on these stories using some medium other than the Kevin's Watch posting utility. I work on my story in Word or whatever and copy and paste it to here.

But the last few times I tried doing this, the posting software refused to accept my message. I can paste a "small amount" of something, like a couple sentences, but anything more gives me an error message.

What's up with that?

[wayfriend]

If this is what I think it is, and I think it is, then see The "406 Not Acceptable" Thread

It's all Vain's fault.

[Shuram Gudatetris]

Thanks!

[Linna Heartbooger]

I actually managed to get error trying to post the word "coa-lesce."

Not Acceptable*

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /phpBB2/posting.php could not be found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Not exactly a 406, though..

So don't try to write posts that have the word "coelesce" (spelled correctly) in them?

[Sorus]

I can't post it either. That is utterly bizarre.

Someone page Vain!

[Avatar]

Odd.

--A

[wayfriend]

The only thing I can think of is coa-not-more is the name of a PHP function, and the same security thugs that prohibit extended ASCII might be prohibiting function names as a means of preventing hacking.

[Avatar]

Sounds logical.


--A

[Sorus]

They can't just go around banning words! How long did it take you to figure out which word was the problem, Linna? I hope it was in a Mallory's context rather than a lengthy post.

[wayfriend]

Searching the web, I can see that this problem seems to be related to the same security "mod" that prohibits extended ASCII. But I am not really understanding why. I don't it's a ban on words... it's either a bug, or prevention of an injection attack in some way.

[Avatar]

Or both.

--A