Can't post in the tank, can post in mallory's?

Holsety

I tried to post in the tank, got an error (couldn't preview the msg or post it). I tried to post in mallory's, and it went through. I tried to post in the tank again, same error. I'll check back tomorrow, but let me know if this is a known issue and if there is anything I should do about it.

Avatar · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 4:26 am Post subject:

What was the error?

Were you copying and pasting into the post from somewhere else?

Have you read this thread? The 406 Not Acceptable Error

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Savor Dam · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 5:49 am Post subject:

Seconding Av's suggestion. Many of us have been tripped up by the new security features that forbid special characters, since we cut and paste from elsewhere...and many of those tools automatically substitute "smart quotes" and other print-pretty characters that our hosting infrastructure interprets as non-standard text that could be a hacking attempt.
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StevieG · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:07 am Post subject:

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I'm Murrin · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 6:11 am Post subject:

Note that the pound sign is one of the characters that isn't accepted, because 'merica.
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Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 1:02 pm Post subject:

After posting on the Watch for years, I myself was suddenly stymied by that infamous "406 Not Acceptable" error message!

The problem was I'd copied a quote off a webpage - and it turned out the left-quote and right-quote characters it had were non-ascii characters.

And then even when I knew what to look for, a bit later, it was surprisingly hard to locate all the left-quote and right-quote characters in a body of text!

Or is it not even letting you start to create a post?
(I think the Tank still has slightly different settings from other subforums, right?)
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Holsety · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 4:13 am Post subject:

I have been copy pasting and quoting...but the posts have only been copy and pastes from text on the tank. Still, maybe that's the problem. I'll see if only using quotes by using the quote button, as opposed to copy and pasting the completed posts, solves the problem.

If I get the error again I'll post it.

Linna Heartbooger · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2016 12:09 pm Post subject:

That can totally happen... wayfriend or someone pointed out that it's possible to post a non-ASCII character by using its funky ASCII code and stuff, but that then if someone tries to quote that portion of - bam! It appears as a non-ASCII character and stops that person with a "406 Not Acceptable" error.
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Avatar · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:22 am Post subject:

Yeah, that's probably it. Very Happy

And no, the 'Tank has the same settings. Equality, y'know. Wink

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sgt.null · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:09 am Post subject:

my plan is working it seems...
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Avatar · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 4:20 am Post subject:

The plot thickens...

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MsMary · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:18 am Post subject:

Did you use plot thickener? Wink

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sgt.null · Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 8:14 am Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:36 am Post subject:

MsMary · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 7:10 am Post subject:

aTOMiC · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2016 6:39 pm Post subject:

I'd rather post in Mallory's than the Tank. Does that count? Smile

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dANdeLION · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 3:12 am Post subject:

I can't post in the Tank, due to the fact that I have standards.
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Avatar · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2016 4:43 am Post subject:

So does the 'Tank...low ones, but standards nonetheless...

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sgt.null · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 6:39 am Post subject:

it all come together. I see that Tom has found his way back.
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Avatar · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:42 am Post subject:

It's a start... Very Happy

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