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I have one user who says she gets this error message when trying to post a reply to a topic on our board:
"the host from which you are accessing this board is not recognized as a valid host. This is more than a firewall issue that is blocking the referer variable. Check your firewall settings and try again."
Any idea what the problem could be?
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Well, the message says it all. Check firewall settings. He probably has software that removes the referal that is used by ubb for security reasons.
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Ask him or her if they are using Norton 360 or what ever it is, If they are then there is your problem.
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I've just had an email with the same thing... I'm having big problems posting mate. FF and IE7 both give a UBB error.
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??? Surely he will be using a firewall. But why is this error happening only sometimes? This guy is a regular user.
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I found this helpful post from Gizmo with several steps to try: Post888321 I added the www variant of my site to the "Domains for HTTP Referer Check" field under Primary Settings/Advanced Options. We'll see if this helps my user out.
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A new wrench to throw in the mess... It seems that BROWSERS also are starting to come out with the option to block the referrer variable; found one issue in FireFox lol... Although not "common"...
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Interesting... I just tweaked my settings to include a non-www version of my site. ie http://www.example.com | http://example.comBut it stopped me from posting. Did I miss something?
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Sorry. Forgot to mention I got the same 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.
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