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Bug 15350 - Getting strange 403 errors when trying to edit with following text:
Getting strange 403 errors when trying to edit with following text:
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Page editing (Other open bugs)
1.13.x
All All
: Low normal (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://medicarelaw.info/wiki/Medicare...
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Depends on: 39463
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-08-28 17:17 UTC by Alex
Modified: 2013-03-25 15:02 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Alex 2008-08-28 17:17:31 UTC
I would like to edit this page, but whenever I hit "preview" something in the following text block is making it escape out to requesting the index.php file and giving me a 403 error. If I edit other sections, there is no problem, but when I try to edit this section alone or the whole page, I get the 403 error. If I delete the section altogether, it works fine, but the section is important to have in there. 

I have tried deleting the <ref> tags, all links (internal and external), colons, exclamation points, ampersands, and semicolons, in combinations of one of each of those or all of them together. No luck. Am I missing something really obvious or is this a bug?

This page was easily editable under 1.8.2 (and possibly 1.10, I can't recall if I edited on that), but now does not seem to work in 1.13.0. 

I get the same 403 error on a local copy of a separate wiki (same MW version 1.13.0, extensions, MySQL version 5.0) when I enter the following on its own new page:

#Download to your hard drive PDF versions of all the [[Transmittals]] from every year and every "internet only" manual. Also download all the "paper-based" manuals, which are usually in Microsoft Word format. 
##To do this, it is helpful to use a utility combination such as Firefox, FlashGot and curl or wget to construct a query that will allow you to download transmittals for each manual into a separate directory. See [[User:Alex|Alex]]'s reverse-engineered list of [[Transmittal File Naming Conventions]] for help in building a query. Or, if you know what you're doing with curl or [http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/faq.html#1.3 wget] (recommended over curl), you can go that route too. (Check out [[User:Alex|Alex's]] [[Talk:Medicare_Manual|instructions]] if you're interested in that route). I've found [http://www.mozilla.com Firefox] in combination with [http://www.flashgot.net/ FlashGot] and [http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ wget] is the most user-friendly combo: It works on every modern operating system using the "Build Gallery". 
##Once you've downloaded them, group the transmittals into directories (folders) by manual (optional)
#Install a local search utility such as Yahoo!&reg; search, Google&reg; Desktop or MSN&reg; Desktop Search. (Optional, but highly recommended unless you're using Mac OS 10.4.x+. Windows Vista may have a local search capability built in, but I'm not sure how good it is.)
#Find the phrase in the current manual you wish to compare to the old manuals
#Search through the appropriate directory using Acrobat&reg; or Adobe Reader&reg; or one of the search utilities (Google and MSN don't let you filter by directory as easily as Yahoo!; Google is fastest, but has no PDF preview; MSN gives you a PDF preview)
##If you're lucky enough to be working on a Mac OS 10.4 or higher, you just need to use Spotlight. 
#Read through each transmittal where the term appears and see when/if it actually changed from the original text that was likely imported from CMS's [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Manuals/PBM/list.asp paper-based manuals]
#If the effective date (not necessarily the publication or implementation date!) of the provision is before the date of service, generally, that provision applies.
Comment 1 Niklas Laxström 2008-10-06 07:53:04 UTC
Cannot reproduce locally.
Comment 2 Platonides 2009-02-18 15:59:18 UTC
Looks like mod_security errors. Disable that extension if you have it installed on apache and try again.
You could also use bisection to find which are the "bad" keywords.

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