Application Firewall Error - 65% of posts mainly just text
mark55man
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TL;DR - My requests to post keep getting blocked - I would send a screenshot but it keeps getting blocked
Problem
Every day about 2/3 of my mainly text posts get a pop up saying my request has been blocked
"if you feel you have been blocked in error please contact ...."
I contacted them a few days ago but no reply.
Analysis
To me it looks like you have a new web application firewall and for some reason I have got on the wrong side of it. As I am merely just posting text on this forum as I have always done, it is clear that you have not yet configured it properly and I would ask that you do so, as it is rendering the site unusable.
I now limit myself to really short replies (which may be a good thing in itself), but it is enormously frstrating to lose a long post, have to recover the text (not always possible) and then shut everything down and restart before I post "THE EXACT SAME POST" successfully
what are you trying to achieve with this innovation - its not working for me TBH
Problem
Every day about 2/3 of my mainly text posts get a pop up saying my request has been blocked
"if you feel you have been blocked in error please contact ...."
I contacted them a few days ago but no reply.
Analysis
To me it looks like you have a new web application firewall and for some reason I have got on the wrong side of it. As I am merely just posting text on this forum as I have always done, it is clear that you have not yet configured it properly and I would ask that you do so, as it is rendering the site unusable.
I now limit myself to really short replies (which may be a good thing in itself), but it is enormously frstrating to lose a long post, have to recover the text (not always possible) and then shut everything down and restart before I post "THE EXACT SAME POST" successfully
what are you trying to achieve with this innovation - its not working for me TBH
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Drinking milk shakes, cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine
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Hello - is there anybody here? Still happening I've tried IE 11 and Latest Firefox - just randomly blanking and then losing posts. If you are going to show an error message you need to take more steps to preserve the text that was submitted - its all a bit Random - and in my book that;s the worst thing a website can beI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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And here's an odd one - if I post a youtube link its fine as long as I don't put http in front of it. Then you resolve this into an active clickable link, and then when I edit it and try to resubmit you block it. I think you need to look at what you are trying to protect yoruself fromI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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Plus here's an odd one - sometimes it gives me the firewall block error but posts the message anyway
MSE - your email to my report of this just blamed a rogue IP which is odd as it happens on more than one IP and shouldn't happen intermittently (sounds more like a convenient excuse). Tell me what do I have to do to get a proper response to this problem - you are not performing very well as a CSR or as a service desk - sorry to say it out loudI think I saw you in an ice cream parlour
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Hi. Thank you for letting us know.
I realise you've been in touch with a team member already. If this is still happening could you email the link to this thread, together with screenshots of your error and mentioning we've asked you to get in touch to forumteam @ moneysavingexpert.com please?
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Its still happening - every time I post a http link - I just lost about 15 minutes typing on an update for my blog. even if you do have to put the blasted message in the way, you shold at least fail gracefully and return the user to the state so they can do something about it..
Losing integrity of data submitted is a bit of a no no really - honestly - you need to have a word with your security team and check they know what they are doing, and that they have an understanding between what is actually a risk and what is just easy for them to do. I suggest they need some proper advice - because it doesn't come across as at all professional.
Also - sorry - but I'm not going to join this up for you - its your problem you should send them the link - either I'm the only one with a problem in which case it will be easy to find, or many people are reporting this which means they should just get on with solving it
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Please explain this MSE Andrea
I submit a post with a link in but which i have removed the hxxps from the beginning
Your site then posts this and activates the link
I spot an error and edit it but you software then rejects the post een though it was previously happy to have a link, and indeed you put the activiation on
Not only that, but when you reject the edit, you also delete half the post above that had already been submitted
And even worse, the previous version of this post in only contained the text hxxp colon slash slash and you rejected it
Perhaps you should emply someone who understands security, UX and rigorous testing in your IT team
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