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Guyus Seralius of The Universe posted an update in the Beta Testing group
Beta Testing – BUGS January 14, 2017 @ 6:54 pm I just tried to post my first article and I keep getting a 403 Forbidden page which also reads “A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site.” Does anyone know why?
Hi Guyus, it turns out the 403 you got was due to our firewall. I think I have fixed this; I temporarily set the firewall to ‘learn’ that shared Youtube videos are acceptable as inline links within posts. When you get a chance, I would appreciate it if you could post another article with a Youtube video in it and see if you avoid the 403 response. Hopefully so! One note, I noticed that copy-pasting the ’embed’ code from Youtube outputs the code verbatim, rather than actually embedding the video. Simply ‘sharing’ the video (putting the https link into my article) worked for my test.
I will definitely be happy to try those experiments very soon, likely today, so thanks for letting me know what all you discovered, tried, and fixed!
I tried posting another article as a test (copying and pasting one of my WordPress essays which included images and a YouTube video) and I still got the 403 error, but as soon as I removed the video that does show up in the editor your site uses, then it posted okay. I also did confirm that I could simply paste in a link for a YouTube video (without using ‘Add Media’ and seeing the [embedded] coding next to it) and that worked okay; the video showed up in the article once I posted it. I’m not sure what exactly is different in the pasted video coding and a written url link. I will see if I can figure that out when I get some more free time, unless you figure it out first. Hang in there and keep at it. I’m happy I did find a way to post my essays with all their images and videos, so I’m set for now, no pressure on my end.
Thanks, Guyus. I don’t know what’s different either…when I put the firewall in ‘learning mode’, I did manually add the link, so maybe that’s different somehow from copy-pasting a previous WP post with the links already inline. To my mind, it shouldn’t make any difference, but obviously it does somehow. Out of curiosity, did you copy paste from the ‘Visual’ window, or the ‘Text’ window? I’ll try to replicate your steps exactly and see if I can identify anything different in the process from what I did. Anyway…no rush. Thanks again for your help!