Important Announcement

Some recent discussions in the Tech Support sub forum reported an unusual situation in which newly created threads containing the word "Shavings" in the title couldn't be accessed ... and instead, the following error message was displayed:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access this resource.
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Subsequently, I have discovered that any word in the title that contained the six letter sequence "having" would cause the thread to no longer be viewable and instead would display the "forbidden" message. This means that the following words must not be used in the title until we figure out how to fix the problem:

• having
• shaving
• shavings
• behaving
• misbehaving
• reshaving
• $havings, XYZhaving, 123having and other such non-word sequences

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Going all the way back to the beginning of the forum in 2004 there are less than thirty threads with Shaving or Shavings in the title making them unreadable. I couldn't search on the word "having" because the forum search engine considered the word too common.

The words containing "having" can be used in the body of a post, but not the title. It's up to your ingenuity to come up with substitute words, but not being able to use "shavings" on a woodturning forum is just weird.

 

This is fixable without the need for a software update, but FYI we're working on a customized version of XenForo 2.X that has basically the same UI as we currently have in order to minimize or eliminate any heartburn over the transition when we do upgrade.

 

I verified that inserting a space or any other character works, but impacts readability.

 

I discovered that it was still there about an hour ago and deleted it. Normally, when threads are merged you wind up with just one thread. However, in this situation the merge works OK, but the one that was supposed to disappear was still there. Fortunately, I was able to delete it.

 

@Bill Boehme can never retire, I would not know even where to start looking into this problem. Thank you Bill, I know you were working way past your bedtime last night.

 

This problem has now been fixed. It was a security rule in the server software on prevent SQL injection attacks. I changed the rule and you can now start using Having again If you guys run into any other keyword errors like this please let Bill or I know and we will take care of it. Thanks!

 

Thank you, Chris. That was a very strange problem.

 

If you couldn't access the forum at all then the problem you were having was somewhere other than the forum. The delays that I experienced were sometimes between thirty seconds and a minute, but there wasn't any period where the forum couldn't be accessed.

 

Since the problem has been fixed, I'm unsticking this thread. If anybody encounters any other keyword in a thread title that causes this problem, please report it to a moderator.