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Related: About this forumStrange 403 Forbidden reply with a certain phrase in quotes - others get it too
Post a reply with anything in the title, but the body consisting of the following, but enclosed in either single or double quotes:
not connected in
I get a "403 forbidden" reply when I do.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)I was posting an excerpt from a news story.
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)marybourg
(12,633 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)questionseverything
(9,656 posts)Not connected in
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)If I use the slightly skewed double quote - - it works OK, as it did for you. If I use the purely vertical double quote - " - I get the 403 Forbidden error.
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)I was trying to help but I cant find the purely vertical double quote
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Producing the slightly skewed one is a lot harder (I copied from your post).
A post below suggests it's a security feature. You did help by showing it's only certain types of quotes are involved.
questionseverything
(9,656 posts)Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Bizarre, indeed. Who knew that there at least two categories of "Forbidden"?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)Too used to talking about "404 no such page", I guess.
usonian
(9,815 posts)and some characters are apparently forbidden, as is some HTML.
As an outside example, Mister Null has real problems with computers, as it's a reserved word.
https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/
Quotes and html blocks can contain payloads designed to inject code or database commands.
"The internet's one tough town"
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)I see that "not connected" is an SQL term. But it is, for some reason, the addition of "in" to that that causes the problem.
usonian
(9,815 posts)But I thought that would be off-topic.
But strange things do happen. I can't access archive.{md, ph, is } when using iCloud Private Relay, a kind of vpn.
When I was doing admin work, users would ask me to "fix the internet" when it went down. I would check our stuff and wait it out. Usually a fiber cable cut by bulldozers somewhere in San Jose or a router programmed wrong in a data center in an unknown location.
Monitoring systems pick those up and alert staff. I worked on one and it was interesting to implement.
There's a history behind monitoring equipment and the Perl programming language. For computer geeks. Later.