Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
Hi @pfefferle - if you have a free moment I'd love to get your thoughts on an odd bug.
For one WebMention source only I'm getting a 403. I host both the bugged sender and the receiver.
I'm currently working through the issue with technical support so no worries if I caught you at a bad time. I love your plugins and want to respect your time.
Matthias Pfefferle
@lordmatt sure, can you send me the links? (source and target)
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
@pfefferle I can indeed:
Source: https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/2024/04/30/posts/replies/whats-my-take-on-writing-prompts/
Target: https://openmentions.com/news/question-of-the-week/whats-your-take-on-writing-prompts/
Matthias Pfefferle
@lordmatt is it a general issue between these two sites or only this specific URL?
Matthias Pfefferle
@lordmatt the debugging tool shows nothing out of the ordinary... do you maybe use some words in the post that might be blocked for comments?
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
@pfefferle It seems to be between the two. Another pinged as normal. I've tried two targets on OpenMentions with two sources from node.lordmatt.co.uk and both gave me a Forbidden which showed up in the access logs.
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
@pfefferle OpenMentions has no blocked comment keys - the only limit is first-time commenters are held for moderation.
This might be the strangest brick wall I've run into for a while. Everything looks correct and yet...
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
@pfefferle I suspect the problem may be with node.lordmatt.co.uk as other implementations also reply forbidden to it.
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
@pfefferle I accidentally stumbled on the problem. I tried to ping another site I run from node.lordmatt.co.uk. That too gave the same reply.
So I took a look at the backend of node.lordmatt.co.uk. That's when I saw a notice about an expired anti-spam license. Disabled plugin. Everything works again.
I'd assumed it was WebMention as that's where the error was. Only now do I recall that 500s were recently changed to 403s. 4.5 hours spent re-learning to look at the simple stuff first.
Matthias Pfefferle
@lordmatt no problem :)
I am glad you found the issue!
Matt 🔶 (LordMatt)
Thank you @pfefferle for willingly sharing some of your time to help me with a really rare edge case where "the other site refuses to play nicely" was the one-in-a-million error.
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