The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.<\/p>\n
I got an IM from Amanda, complaining she couldn’t post a comment to my post on Casino Royale<\/em>. I tried as well, and got the following server-level message.<\/p>\n 412 Precondition Failed<\/strong><\/p>\n The precondition on the request for the URL \/blog\/mt\/mt-comments.cgi evaluated to false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, that’s odd.<\/p>\n But other posts were allowing comments just fine.<\/p>\n Hmmmm …<\/p>\n I hie myself off to Google to search on the error. I run across a few references, and it sounds like a mod_security error, keying off some Forbidden Spam-like Word.<\/p>\n Could it be …?<\/p>\n I try revising the title. No effect. Then I revise the underlying post file name (“”new_casino_royale_trailer.html”), which included the dreaded word … casino<\/em>.<\/p>\n See, that word shows up in waaaaay too many spam messages. And doubtless there’s now some server-level anti-spam thang that block stuff that has that word in it (or has links to a file\/site with that word in it, or something like that).<\/p>\n I redid the MT basename for that file (“new_cas_royale_trailer.html”) and, hey-presto, the post allows comments.<\/p>\n How many other weirdities do you think might occur out there in the coming months as more people comment on (or link to blog posts on) Casino Royale<\/em>? <\/p>\n Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again. I got an IM from Amanda, complaining she couldn’t post a comment to my post on Casino Royale. 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