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Forum Access Oddity

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>>>> IMAP HOTMAIL remains functionally great again and THIS is something I can live with, BUT .....

Most every time now ( FF 112 AND EDGE and FF TEST PROFILE) I clk my desktop shtcut
-- https://www.essentialpim.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 -- I get a reduced site page stating under an Information tag -- The forum you selected does not exist.... I can clk a link there TO Support....

THE URL has been STRIPPED of -- ?f=2 --https://www.essentialpim.com/forum/viewforum.php --

ALL I DO.... is Clk + for a 2nd tab, clk SAME Shtcut, and the site Always loads with all URL characters. FYI IF Easy Fix, Disregard if Not...

From FF Forum ..The url is stripped when the forum's session cookie is absent. (not stripped when present)
The issue may be a forum bug. However, the name of the session cookie is AntiBot so the issue may have to do with forum spam protection.
The "AntiBot" string isn't in the forum's code so I guess it's a server side feature, not a client side feature.
The feature should be controllable by the admin, but it may be something like Cloudflare's antibot protection. If the feature is enabled by default, then the admin may not even know about it.
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Re: Forum Access Oddity

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Time to time the forum experiences a DDOS attack, which can flood the server with various types of requests. To prevent this from happening, AntiBot controls access rights. We have disabled this mechanism for now, but we may need to turn it back on in the future.
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Re: Forum Access Oddity

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Thanks for the Reply. No problem IF it returns as needed.
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Re: Forum Access Oddity

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Hi there,
I donot quite understand what is described here.
What I guess, is, that it has to do with the "issue" I had for some time now, and which has disappered again:
When clicking on a link which lead to forum main page oder to a forum group in past, it now lead to a page telling me, that the forum doesnot exist. And the adress in adress line of browser was cut off to some extend.
Do I understand that this was due to server settings and I can stop to search for a reasion for this on my side?
And maybe somebody could explain in simple words. what all this that I experienced is about?
Thanks.
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Re: Forum Access Oddity

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poet-man, in simple words, these were anti-DDoS measures that had their downsides. If everything is working fine for you now, you don't need to do anything else.
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