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403 Error (too) on profile update

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I am trying to add my location (Australia) to my profile - and nothing else - but the profile edit form comes back with:

 

403 ERROR %s ERROR
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Sorry but the page you have requested has encountered the following error: 

Forbidden

Please feel free to browse the rest of my website
You may also use the "Search" feature to find the product you are looking for
I apologise for the inconvenience.
 

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I got this when I tried to post a hilarious Amazon review. Many times I edited it but nothing worked ... until I spotted that one of the reviews featured a list of luxury brands (for comic effect). When I removed that line, the post sailed through. Have a look and see if something in your post can be identified as a product - you will get the "Forbidden" message as the software thinks it's spam. 

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It's not even a post... I am trying to edit my profile, and just adding one word - "Australia" to the location field?

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Funnily enough I’m seeing “not secure” in the web address bar, anyone else?

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The "Not Secure" is normal for this site. It is because it is an http site not an https site. The latter I believe costs more and is really only essential if handling personal or financial data.

I think this has been discussed before somewhere on here.

 

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46 minutes ago, Paddy said:

The "Not Secure" is normal for this site. It is because it is an http site not an https site. The latter I believe costs more and is really only essential if handling personal or financial data.

I think this has been discussed before somewhere on here.

 

Ahhh thanks Paddy, seeing it a lot more from various other sites I visit, thought it was something to do with the site certificates.

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15 hours ago, Paddy said:

The latter I believe costs more and is really only essential if handling personal or financial data.

Personally, I would advise the owner of the site to get https. It's a pain in the backside to get it running; it took me half a day to configure it on my site, and I am (sort of) competent as server admin. But, on the other hand, he will just get someone more competent than myself to do it for him.

The reason I recommend it is not security only, but also that recently Google started "punishing" sites that don't have https - they are considered unsafe, and get lower search ranking. In other words, you lose visibility and visitors.

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On 9 May 2019 at 9:48 AM, Paddy said:

The "Not Secure" is normal for this site. It is because it is an http site not an https site. The latter I believe costs more and is really only essential if handling personal or financial data.

I think this has been discussed before somewhere on here.

 

https is fast becoming the norm. The fact is, http really is unsecure and a hacker could see your data, or even track your IP address. There is a little app called "https everywhere" (or similar) which is highly recommended. We think just because we don't give out personal information on a site (like this) we're safe. We arent! 

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