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I have a test user who is trying to post a message on my new 7.1 forum and he is receiving this message: "The host from which you are accessing the board is not recognized as a valid host. This is more than likely related to a firewall issue that is blocking the referer variable. Check your firewall settings and try again. "
She says that she is not using a firewall. What else that can be? I can post message (as a user) from here w/o any restrictions.
If I disable the 'Refer' check mark on the Admin, what else I will loose?
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Joined: Jul 2006
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Just disable the refferer check, it helps prevent spam that's all.
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Yes, the short fix to subverting this error is to disable this setting.
The setting is there as a spam prevention feature; basically if the referrer variable cannot be read it spews this error; generally this happens when the user is using a firewall or security suite (or browser plugin) which filters out this variable.
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by Outdoorking - 04/13/2024 5:08 PM
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