Mysterious 404s when trying to post

[covox]

I don't know if I'm going nuts, but I'm limited by what I can post without getting redirected to the idiotstudios 404 message from clicking Post or Preview. For instance, if I try to post a message containing the normally-spaced phrase "Lynx_port_of", I get redirected to the 404 every single time without fail.  :undecided:

I mean, I know Atari didn't exactly back a winning horse, but there's no reason for the forums to exhibit such blatant GameGear favouritism.

[tseug]

It appears that "lynx " results in a 404 :huh2: :huh2:
(the space after "lynx" is in italics)

[Mr. K]

lynx

EDIT: OK, just posted it!  Maybe a passing error?  Let me try again.  lynx.  EDIT2: Yep, there we go.  God knows what happened.

Lynx.

EDIT: ZOMGWTF I JUST FOUND SOMETHING.  Yeah, if you put in "Lynx_port_of" it 404's.  I don't know why; the forum censored word list is blank so it might be something out of my control.  I'll talk to the host about it.

[covox]

I know, that's the weirdest part! All 3 words have to be in there. There's definitely more combinations than that, as I remember posting once before and smacking into the same problem (only getting around it by using cut-and-paste to determine what words it didn't like, aka. the bisection method)

[tseug]

I know, that's the weirdest part! All 3 words have to be in there.

Uh... no they don't. Did you see my post? The normally spaced string "lynx " causes a 404.

[Andi]

An easteregg from the board programmers?  :huh2:  -Lynx_port_of- (This is awesome xD)

Ksoft, you propably scan the sourcecode for the phrase "lynx".

[Mr. K]

I wonder how the programmers could force a 404, though.

It may be something set up by the server.  Maybe someone under the name of l-y-n-x is banned from my host and that is having to do with keeping them out?

Wtf, now I can't even write the word.

[tseug]

Now I wonder if anyone can even see my posts in this thread. :huh2: Can anyone read this?

[covox]

Yeah you're right, "lynx_" does the same thing. I missed the space before when I tried it  separately.

[Mindless]

Check this:

http://www.ksoftgames.idiotstudios.net/?lynx_port

vs

http://www.ksoftgames.idiotstudios.net/?lynx%20port

[Mr. K]

Now I wonder if anyone can even see my posts in this thread. :huh2: Can anyone read this?

Yes.

[lomay]

Check this:

http://www.ksoftgames.idiotstudios.net/?lynx_port

vs

http://www.ksoftgames.idiotstudios.net/?lynx%20port

lol for http://www.ksoftgames.idiotstudios.net/?lynx[/i]%20port̆ :huh2:

weird though...

[zhinchliffe]

this s**t is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

(OH BTW I GRACIOUSLY PROVIDE HOSTING TO ALL YOU GUYS, YEAH I'M AWESOME)

Seriously, out of egotistical jerk mode, I have no clue what strange error is attacking these boards. It doesn't seem to happen elsewhere, although i'll check to be sure.

CURSE YOU LY|\|X, CUUUUURRSSEEE YYYOOOOUUUUUU

[lomay]

this s**t is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

(OH BTW I GRACIOUSLY PROVIDE HOSTING TO ALL YOU GUYS, YEAH I'M AWESOME)

Seriously, out of egotistical jerk mode, I have no clue what strange error is attacking these boards. It doesn't seem to happen elsewhere, although i'll check to be sure.

CURSE YOU LY|\|X, CUUUUURRSSEEE YYYOOOOUUUUUU

....what the heck!? >_>;

[Mr. K]

That is our host.

Anyway, I just tested this at my other forum.  Same thing happens.  Dunno if it's to do with Idiot Studios/Porplemontage, or if it's an SMF bug.

[Mr. K]

lynx port of

EDIT: SOLVED!!!!!!!!111111!!!!11one

Apparently this has to do with the hosting running mod_security on Apache.  It filters certain things out, and I guess Lynx is something.

Anyway, what I did was make an .htaccess file that disables mod_security for my hosting account.  I hope that's OK.

NOW IT WORKS. PARTYTIME!

[covox]

Huzzah!

[ccexplore]

lynx port of

EDIT: SOLVED!!!!!!!!111111!!!!11one

Apparently this has to do with the hosting running mod_security on Apache.̆ It filters certain things out, and I guess Lynx is something.

Good job. 

Incidentally, Lynx is just not the name of a failed handheld console, as some people here seems to be thinking.  It is also the name for a text-only web browser that used to be popular in Unix in the ancient days of the WWW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

Still not sure how that is relevant to security though. :undecided:  Other meanings for "Lynx" listed in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28disambiguation%29

[covox]

Incidentally, Lynx is just not the name of a failed handheld console, as some people here seems to be thinking.  It is also the name for a text-only web browser that used to be popular in Unix in the ancient days of the WWW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_%28web_browser%29

I still use lynx on a regular basis through SSH, as the alternative is paying the university their exorbitant internet tax (which would involve waiting untold hours in a line). Works great as long as you don't want images. Or Javascript.  :tongue:

[Mindless]

I still use lynx on a regular basis through SSH, as the alternative is paying the university their exorbitant internet tax (which would involve waiting untold hours in a line). Works great as long as you don't want images. Or Javascript.  :tongue:

You can use SSH but not browse the web?

[covox]

In Western Australia there's this peering service called WAIX, which (in a nutshell) connects almost every single machine located in Perth. Normally the university forces you to use a metered proxy for outside websites, but allows free unproxied WAIX traffic. Which is brilliant as my lovely server I have a shell account on is available.