Hello,
I am encountering an issue on the Kali forum where I frequently see the message “Draft is offline” and “Draft error”, accompanied by a 403 error code. This happens when I am trying to save or submit a post.
Here are some details about my setup and what I’ve tried so far:
Same error messages happens to me also, with several browsers, though mainly happening when trying to edit a post for me, saving seems OK when a post first submitted.
After a couple of tries to save the edit the change will normally ‘stick’ so I wonder if its some sort of time out error in the forum?
Ant spam measures perhaps?
This is likely. @gamb1t is there some measure in place?
@Fred Can you please check the network activity through inspect element and see if you can see the cause of the 403 error? I have no issues with drafts on my end.
One anti-spam measure that is in place is brand new users are unable to edit their post unless they meet certain requirements which I will not mention to help prevent edit spam. I wonder if this is the cause of the error.
If you receive the 403 and can share me the network request for it, that would be a big help.
And now I’m trying to get an error, its working perfectly 
oh well…
I think this supports my theory. As I said in DMs, because of your activity on the old forums and this one I have increased your standing on here which allows you to meet those requirements to edit posts.
@7RU57 If you can check the network request when it fails, that would be appreciated.
I am having the same problem so I checked the reply to my request and it shows this:
Blockquote Please enable cookies. # Sorry, you have been blocked ## You are unable to access kali.org ## Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
Then I added https://forums.kali.org/ to the exempt list (so cookies are allowed) but nothing changed. I am using Firefox for Ubuntu 133.0 (64-bit)
I have the same issue when trying to make a post in a support forum, I wonder if this reply will also give me a 403 error
I have the same issue.
It happened to me as well few times yesterday. It seems there is a buffer limit to what you write. Yesterday I had to post 3 consecutive replies instead of 1. If the buffer of what you are trying to write is large, then you won’t be able to reply/comment
Next time it happens, can I get a screenshots or any form of logs that can be accessed? Also what the text is that is getting flagged?
had 403 error trying to reply to a post today;
let me compose a message, just gave 403 when trying to post it. this is firefox but kali forum is allowed all cookies, tracking etc in browsewr settings;
hope this is helpful
Let me post exactly the same text but without any backticks to highlight code section one liner, maybe it was the code insertion causing the issue.
Not allowed;
Allowed;
I get this right now when trying to help out.
Any fix to this or forum is unusable sometimes?
Edit
yepp, its if I use code editing, then it sends a 403 error.
Please fix.
