Reply to: New Forum Bug Reports

[NickFitz]

I suspect it's a Chrome problem as I had the same problem with the BBC site yesterday. In bookmark manager I found that the CUK and BBC bookmarks were http because I had saved them a long time ago. Normally a browser would automatically switch to the latest url? Edge etc do.

I expect most of us have old bookmarks/favourites we saved a long time ago.

Ah, that's interesting! The site should automatically redirect from http to https, so maybe there's a problem with how that's configured. Or maybe Chrome is trying to do something a bit too clever for its own good - often a problem with Google products these days!

[xoggoth]

I suspect it's a Chrome problem as I had the same problem with the BBC site yesterday. In bookmark manager I found that the CUK and BBC bookmarks were http because I had saved them a long time ago. Normally a browser would automatically switch to the latest url? Edge etc do.

I expect most of us have old bookmarks/favourites we saved a long time ago.

[NickFitz]

Few times in last 2 days not been able to access site, message says "forums.contractoruk.com doesn't support a secure connection with HTTPS"

I've noticed that (or something similar) occasionally, though not for a while. From what I could tell, the new owner has been doing something to do with the certificates that allow for secure connections, probably setting up a system to ensure they're renewed properly before they expire. But that's just conjecture on my part! If that's what it is, then I assume it'll stop once such a system is stable

[xoggoth]

Had it again this morning.

[xoggoth]

Few times in last 2 days not been able to access site, message says "forums.contractoruk.com doesn't support a secure connection with HTTPS"

[ladymuck]

ftfy

whoops

[sadkingbilly]

The Welcome / FAQs forum is saying there'RE unread posts when there AREn't. Even after I opened the forum and clicked on 'mark all posts read'.

ftfy

[ladymuck]

The Welcome / FAQs forum is saying there's unread posts when there isn't. Even after I opened the forum and clicked on 'mark all posts read'.

[ladymuck]

Getting

Error while saving content: %1$s

Error information: " 403 error "

When posting in TPD. Second attempt seems to have worked

[DoctorStrangelove]

WTF is a "403" error FFS?

Does it need to figure out I'm vaguely human twice in 30 seconds now?

Just askin' like. .

[sadkingbilly]

been getting this:
Error 1015

Ray ID: 916775cf2bc23864 • 2025-02-23 13:11:09 UTCYou are being rate limited

What happened?


The owner of this website (forums.contractoruk.com) has banned you temporarily from accessing this website.

[jamesbrown]

Was looking at the https://forums.contractoruk.com/members/list/ and wanted to sort by reputation or post count to see top posters. No longer works. Coming up with an error on any sorts. Seems a new glitch.

It's the first reply to this thread.

[MarillionFan]

Was looking at the https://forums.contractoruk.com/members/list/ and wanted to sort by reputation or post count to see top posters. No longer works. Coming up with an error on any sorts. Seems a new glitch.

[NickFitz]

Edited to add: I've also just been told that as there was an ongoing bot swarm, the protection has been set to the highest level, which means it challenges every visitor that hasn't been challenged within the set time. Assuming the bots have moved on, they'll drop it down a notch. That means that CloudFlare will first check for other signals that you're not a bot when deciding whether to let you pass, so will be much less likely to challenge you in the first place.

Further update: the security level to trigger a challenge was lowered, and the bots came swarming back in like those tentacle things in The Matrix (1999). So we'll have to put up with being challenged occasionally for a while longer

[jamesbrown]

Thanks, Nick!