I’ve seen posts that other members have had problems with the 403 error starting around the time of the outage on the 17th, but their problems cleared up.
I’m getting the 403 when I try to post in the GB Forum. I can post in the Aircraft Forum just fine. When I try to use the “Reply” function, I get the 403 error when I try to post. Oddly, I can use the “Quick Reply” function, but in doing so, I lose any formatting when my content posts.
I wrote one of the moderators, but I’m not sure if the message went through. That’s why I’m posting here.
I was trying to respond to a Private Message yesterday and I got the 403 error message. Everytime there is an “outage” something goes wrong with this forum. There was an “outage” sometime last year and ever since then I no longer receive email notifications.
I think that I have this figured out. It seems that if you copy a link to any website you will get the 403 error. Instead, copy the link as plain text. That seems to work.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that scenario describes every occurrence of this error here on the forum. I just got the error again, when trying to reply to a thread I replied to yesterday successfully. I didn’t try to embed any links in my reply, nor are there any links in the original post or any of the other replies. That’s also the situation with the previous occurrence I had with the error.
Error 403 indicates that a process didn’t have permission to complete what it wanted to do. That could occur with a link to another page or website, that a user uses, but it could also just occur with the calls made by the page itself. I think Kalmbach has a new issue to resolve with the forum website and its servers.
And just now, I returned to that same thread and posted a reply without error.
As an application support and tester by profession, I really think the issue is local to Kalmbach’s servers and to the forum’s software. I would not be surprised if there has been a recent change, whether on the part of Kalmbach’s developers, or, on the part of the vendors who provide the server software, and there’s an incompatibility somewhere, that no one thought about.
I’ve acknowledged that we’re aware of this. However, we have only so much developer time to go around. Right now, the company’s main priority is our new Trains.com initiative. This is taking all our dev horsepower to get going. Online will get to it as soon as they have the time to spare.
Yup. I have seen the same error multiple times. In my case I have noticed a pattern. It seems to happen most when including the previous posters message. When I tried again without their quote, just as a straight reply, it seemed to work. I may be wrong about all that but thus far, that is what I noticed.
Mine was a new post. It would not let me create a new post.
I do notice on occasion that within a thread, some member’s posts have the reply button and others do not, even within the same thread where everyone but one or two responses will not have a reply button.
Actually that acknowledgement was from mid December on the “403 Forbidden” that was happening at that time, was reported on a different thread, and appears to have been resolved within a few days. A second batch has started appearing at the end of December, along with several threads, and until this message, no acknowledgement that you guys have looked at our messages reporting the problem. At least now we know, as well as the priority for any corrective action to resolve the recurring problem.