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"Sorry, could not be submitted" with location plus colon in the body
On a site of mine, a user wrote saying they get a message “Sorry, the form could not be submitted” when trying to save an article. I tried it out and found it was not a general problem. It was being triggered by the word Location: in the text of the article body.
I don’t see this happening on the demo sites, neither 4.8. or the dev version, so it must be something to do with this installation or some interaction with a plugin (of which there are many on this site). Any suggestions for where I should start looking?
The site is running on Textpattern version: 4.9.0-dev (e3f99cc9a521a2a38d5dc9ad4294fe2c) from Jan 2022 and PHP 8.0.30.
weirdly: searching for “location” in the forum likewise causes the forum to bomb [EDIT: well now it works for some reason 🤷. EDIT II: now it doesn’t again. Wha?].
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Re: "Sorry, could not be submitted" with location plus colon in the body
On that client’s site, could it be mod_security at work? Location: could be a trigger (HTTP header). I once had the same when saving a form with com_connect fields (contact form), one was querying some server info, specifically HTTP_USER_AGENT header.
Checking the browser console might tell something (network pane, headers).
I can’t seem to reproduce that fun thing on the forum you mention. [/sad_face]
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Re: "Sorry, could not be submitted" with location plus colon in the body
As suggested by Philippe, check your console. Don’t know if it’s the same: one of my clients got a kind of same problem (due to a new version of a plugin); I cleared its browser cache, and all worked well.
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Re: "Sorry, could not be submitted" with location plus colon in the body
Yeah, random form could not be submitted errors are usually an over-zealous mod_security or other server level anti-spam filter that triggers.
Usual fix is to email the host with the content you’re trying to post and they tweak the filters. If you’re the site admin, mail yourself :P
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