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I have isolated the dreaded BLOCKED post bug
dcarr
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* and .in.
Substitute a single or double quote for the asterisk and a post will be blocked if it contains the above text or a permutation of it.
Substitute a single or double quote for the asterisk and a post will be blocked if it contains the above text or a permutation of it.
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Ed. S.
(EJS)
Hmm. * and .in.
It will not allow me to even quote your post without manually editing the offending portion in your quote.
Lance.
You guys need to stop talking dirty.
Lance.
Here is the original actual-use permutation that caused a blockage when I tried to post it (quotation marks around "market" removed so that I can post it here):
Only the market and collectors in general can decide that.
I had written a medium-length post and decided to save it in Notepad before posting.
When the posting attempt was blocked, I tried removing portions of the text to find the offending portion. It distilled down as shown in the first post of this thread.
The crazy thing is that if you (or at least I) use the highlight feature and then later go back to edit, it will ADD a random caret symbol in there near the highlight tags, so the edit won't work until I delete that!
"*and .in."
What am I doing wrong??
"and .in."
"*and .in."
What am I doing wrong??
I can't post the exact text string because it won't let me.
But somehow Aegis3 was able to post it.
Try quoting that post and see it if lets you (I get "blocked" message if I try that).
Edit: Actually, what I've been blocked by a couple times is trying to use the degree symbol (alt+0167). I wonder if malicious SQL injection is also blocked.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
First I click the "Reply" button to create a forum post. And then I type this:
When I then click on the "Reply to Topic" button, this is what I see (and the text I typed is lost):
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Dan, why would you want to type that?? it seems non-sensical.
You'd want to type that if you're trying to cause trouble.
SQL Injection
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
Dan, why would you want to type that?? it seems non-sensical.
I had a normal post that was blocked. But I also had the text saved via Notepad.
So I tried posting different parts of it until I found the single sentence that caused the blockage.
Then I tried removing and substituting characters from that sentence until I had it distilled down to the fewest and simplest form I could find that cased a blockage.
Here are screen shots of that original seemingly-normal sentence getting blocked:
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
* and .in.
Substitute a single or double quote for the asterisk and a post will be blocked if it contains the above text or a permutation of it.
Discovery is interesting, by the way. Some commands are more powerful than others'
``https://ebay.us/m/KxolR5
If I put a space between " ' " and "and", it's blocked. Strange......
There are probably many permutations of this that get blocked.
Like my full (normal) sentence I showed earlier in this thread.
The problem is, an innocuous combination of characters could be contained in a lengthy composition. When the user attempts to post it, it is blocked and all the text they typed is lost.
So the longer your composition, the more time and effort it takes to write it, and the more likely that it will be blocked and totally lost on a posting attempt.
the real problem appears to be the improper use of an apostrophe, possibly when used in conjunction with periods bracketing a word. not being very tech savvy or knowing anything about writing code, could it be something linked to bad code or hacking that means the current program automatically blocks it??
Here is a sentence which is blocked on a post attempt, but it does not contain any improper words or improper punctuation:
the real problem appears to be the improper use of an apostrophe, possibly when used in conjunction with periods bracketing a word. not being very tech savvy or knowing anything about writing code, could it be something linked to bad code or hacking that means the current program automatically blocks it??
Periods bracketing a word are not necessary.
The first period can be replaced with just about any character and it is still blocked.
Like this:
the real problem appears to be the improper use of an apostrophe, possibly when used in conjunction with periods bracketing a word. not being very tech savvy or knowing anything about writing code, could it be something linked to bad code or hacking that means the current program automatically blocks it??
I'll try again.
SQL Injection
Edited to fix link
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
John, the link needs to be fixed.
That was weird. Link has been fixed.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution