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Blocked from posting to Collab by script tag inside code block

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I am currently unable to post to Codidact Collab. When pressing "Save Post to Q&A" I am taken to the following page:

Page with a big red X saying "Sorry, you have been blocked"

The small print at the bottom says:

Cloudflare Ray ID: 7b7c1ee0bdc87761


In case it's relevant: (turns out it wasn't)

  • I am able to post to Codidact Meta (this post you are reading is from the same account - I only have one).
  • The question I'm attempting to post to Collab contains 3 links, to pages on codidact.org, Wikipedia, and GitHub.
  • I am able to post a comment on Collab - I tested by posting a comment on this older post of mine

Root cause

It appears this was due to a <script> tag being included in a code block in the question. I was able to post the question to Collab after removing the tag.

Example

The following code block cannot be edited into a post on Collab, although editing into this Meta post worked fine:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@codidact/co-design@0.12.5/js/co-design.js" defer></script>

As <script> tags are fairly common in front end code, this is still a problem, although a much smaller scope problem than being unable to post anything to Collab.

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Escalating to sysadmin team (8 comments)
Escalating to sysadmin team
Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I attempted to reproduce the problem but was able to post (I'll delete that later when this is resolved). I was expecting a general Cloudflare problem. I'll make sure our sysadmin team knows about this.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Thanks Monica. It isn't holding me back from anything, just raising an inconsistency from the Co-Design installation guide in case it needs changing.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

We do want to get this fixed, though. If it's coming from Cloudflare it could be IP-based. Don't reveal anything secret, but is there anything different about how you're accessing the site compared to in the past? (It's odd that you can reach here, though I think I remember a Collab-specific Cloudflare problem in the past, so there must be a different configuration or something.)

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Nothing different here. Maybe this is a good reason to migrate Collab to codidact.com...

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I don't seem to have a saved draft as I would on other Codidact communities. Not sure if that's something that usually works on Collab or whether it's relevant here.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Just mentioned on Discord (network-town-hall) that I've tried changing IP address by using mobile hotspot instead of broadband and I'm blocked either way.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I don't want anyone to keep working on this unnecessarily so in case you haven't see the Discord discussion, we've narrowed this down and the question is now successfully posted (with a deliberate typo to avoid the word that was triggering the blocking).

Monica Cellio‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Oh, it was content not IP! Thanks for letting me know. (I haven't seen the Discord discussion yet.)