By njehlen on

I'm getting Page not Found (403) errors when i try to submit a revised version of any page with a mailto: link in it. This happens no matter where the link is: in the title, in the revisions log, or in the body.

Pages that don't have mailto: links don't have this problem. I've turned off all modules except the Page module and tried different themes, but neither of those changed anything.

Has anyone encountered this problem before? Any ideas on how to figure out what's going on?

I'm using Drupal 4.7.3

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vm’s picture

vm commented

what input filter are you using when submitting the page ?

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njehlen commented

I've tried using several input filters, from no filters to the default HTML filters, but nothing has changed. I'm changing the input filter using phpMyAdmin because I can't change them on the site itself (I get the Page not Found when I try).

I have the Spamscan module on the site, but I've tried disabling that module and that didn't fix the problem.

This site was moved about a month ago to a new server, and I'm wondering if there might be a permissions issue that cropped up at that point but wasn't noticed because the pages with mailto: links were already created.

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njehlen commented

I've tried different variations today, and it seems like the offending code is "@" - removing all @s from a page makes it possible to submit it with changes - having an @s means that when you submit, a page not found comes up. I'm lost as to why - anyone ever heard of this problem?

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bassplaya commented

I have the same issue. But removing the @ sign isn't helping at all.. as a matter of fact if I put write an email address in the TinyMCE area for rich text you'll find that this is possible, however if you input the mailto: link in full HTML even with the use of % 40 which is equal to the @ symbol it still gives this error message.. Have no clue either. I checked the compose tips but nothing is mentioned in there neither.

using Drupal 4.7.4

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kristy commented

I get the same error randomly on my 5.1 installation. It just happened again and I narrowed it down to the word "perl" and this is really weird:

The sentence that WOULD NOT submit (I'd get a page not found error):

In 1997 I learned my first server-side scripting langauge by developing an online classifieds web site using html and PERL

The sentence that WOULD submit:

In 1997 I learned my first server-side scripting langauge by developing an online classifieds web site using perl and html

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heine commented

See Mysterious 403, 404, 406 or 500 errors depending on submitted content for the most likely culprit (mod_security).
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