minus-squareusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·edit-22 months agoThis smells like something being blocked by Cloudflare’s WAF (Web Application Firewall) rules. I’d imagine there might be a rule there to try to block requests that look like they could involve sensitive files like the passwd file https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/ The UI should probably alert you of there being an issue posting after getting a 403 response linkfedilink
This smells like something being blocked by Cloudflare’s WAF (Web Application Firewall) rules. I’d imagine there might be a rule there to try to block requests that look like they could involve sensitive files like the passwd file
https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/
The UI should probably alert you of there being an issue posting after getting a 403 response