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AJB88

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Thursday 5th March 2020
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getting a 403 forbidden message when reply to any threads, can start new ones like this but cant reply. Chrome on ChromeOS.

Edit to add PistonHeads advice:

As you've gathered these types of issues do pop up rarely for certain inputs as the firewall we run (to keep the forums secure) can sometimes falsely interpret safe text as malicious. We do plan at some point to make this experience better, but for now it is a known limitation for a small percentage of posts.

That said, you can use the Preview function to gradually isolate the problematic bit in the block of text - e.g. for the text block, start with just the first paragraph and try Preview, if you see 403 you know the bad part exists within there and can go back and further filter it down.

It is a fiddly process, but given the firewall is a managed service and uses an industry standard ruleset to catch security risks, there isn't much else that can be done at the moment (without significant dev effort!).

AJB88

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12,454 posts

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Thursday 5th March 2020
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I've had it a number of times today when replying to threads, quoting people and also trying to do photos.

Its working now at the moment.

AJB88

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Friday 6th March 2020
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its Chrome on ChromeOS which is causing me the issue.

AJB88

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AJB88

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Monday 9th March 2020
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Error 403 again this morning.

AJB88

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Monday 9th March 2020
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Yeh cookies doesn't fix it for me either.

AJB88

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Monday 9th March 2020
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Got a few myself as well

AJB88

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Tuesday 10th March 2020
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Funk said:
Getting this when trying to update this table in the Wiki: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Same here.