[Mediawiki-l] need some help with editing

Brion Vibber brion at wikimedia.org
Thu Jul 19 20:51:53 UTC 2007


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Steve Lindemann wrote:
> I did search the archives but didn't find anything helpful.  Of course, 
> I may have gone about that badly, in any case...
> 
> I get an error page with the following:
> 
>      Method Not Implemented
>      POST to /wiki/index.php not supported.
> 
> when I try to save or preview the following text during an edit:
> 
>      == Modify an existing user name ==
>      * ssh to xxxxx.marmot.org     (999.999.999.999)
>      * su -
[snip]

Number one suspect if it's related to this sort of content would be an
"application security" layer such as mod_security in your web browser
that's misconfigured to assume everything that looks like a shell
command is a hacking attempt.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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