Oops, you don't have permission to post here

[happygeek]

This week I have been seeing 'Oops, you don't have permission to post here' appearing a lot after I click submit - usually when replying to a post. I compose my reply, press submit, get the Oops message, hit back, my reply has gone and if I were a newbie I would probably be gone with it rather than starting again. OK, so I compose long messages in my own text editor and paste here, but the shorter ones I don't. When I reload the page and try again, it is always OK.

Only been happening this week, last couple of days in fact.

[happygeek]

And, while editing the March newsletter, after the first 'update and send test email' button which worked OK and delivered that edit, I am now getting 'Sorry, but there is no valid Newsletter with ID 0.' and cannot save and send the test email. And it loses everything after the first edit. I will persevere, and keep the final edit here on file if this doesn't fix itself today.

[Dani]

I haven't really changed anything I can think of that might be triggering this, and I haven't reproduced it myself. Does it only happen when in staff sections have you noticed? Are you perhaps being logged out? Could it be a cookie issues?

[happygeek]

Happens everywhere, using Chrome on W10 FWIW. Not being logged out, unless I'm invisibly being logged back in when I refresh the page. There is no step between compose reply (while logged in) - get oops message so reload page - reply sends OK (while logged in). Cookies, possibly but nothing has changed at my end either so can't imagine why I'd be seeing these all of a sudden. Will continue to investigate here.

[Dani]

Is anyone else seeing this?!

[Dani]

Also, what is the specific error message because I cannot find the saying "You don't have permission to post here" when I do a phrase search through my code.

[happygeek]

That was the specific error: a big Oops followed by the line 'you don't have permission to post here' - I cut and pasted it from the screen in the root post of this thread. Haven't seen it at all today as of yet, and I've replied to a couple of things so far.

[happygeek]

It was a real PITA yesterday. Only happening on DaniWeb, browser client no problem with anything else. Cleared the cache, restarted client etc etc. Only thing I didn't do was logout and back into DW again.

Anyway, as I say, seems to be working as expected today and not encountered the phantom 403 (I assume it was just a dressed up 403 error) at all so far.

[happygeek]

Didn't happen at all yesterday, so I'm guessing that it was something at my end. I'm just trying to figure out what at the moment. I will mark this as solved so as not to clutter your mind :-)

[Dani]

Did the error message have a DaniWeb UI?

[happygeek]

Yep. Identical to your other 'oops' error messages in UI style.

[Dani]

And yet we don't have an error message: "You don't have permission to post here".

So strange. I'm refusing to believe you didn't misread the message for now. :-P

[happygeek]

Hehe. I know I'm on a lot of meds, but I am not imagining this one :-) As I say, I actually cut and pasted it off the screen so as to save typing time. God knows where it came from, or where it has gone, but as it's fixed itself I would suggest we stop torturing our minds and move on. If it comes back I will screenshot it to death...

[adelphia]

I have had this before in the past, not with DaniWeb but with SSL certification for my own site. What I found to be the issue was that, although I cleared all my cache etc, I had left the Google Chrome taskbar function and "let Google Chrome run in the background" in operation and forgot to close that so I wasn't closing Google completely. Once I closed that and THEN cleared the cache it stareted to work.

If it happens again, try that to see if it fixes it for you.

[diafol]

I'm refusing to believe you didn't misread the message for now.

That has fried my tiny brain :(

[happygeek]

Just to prove I wasn't going mad, got it again today (image attached) with a url for the error of https://www.daniweb.com/js/articles/reply

OK, so I must have thought I had cut and pasted it when I didn't as I got the error wording wrong originally. :-)

Anyway, it's pretty damn close and here it is:

[Dani]

Now that's an error message I can work with.

[diafol]

Heh heh. So that's the equivalent of being made to sit on the naughty step HG. Whatever have you been doing?

[Dani]

Hmm ... is this reproducable by any chance? What forum threads are you specifically trying to reply to? It's most likely a problem with the specific threads.

[Reverend Jim]

Every time I click on the link in this post I get the same message.

[Dani]

That's because Davey linked to a page for admins only.

[happygeek]

I've not noticed any pattern to it, to be honest Dani. Seems pretty random. If it does happen again I will start keeping a log to see if any pattern emerges.

[happygeek]

There you go, it just happened when I tried to reply here about 30 seconds ago.