Images named Mech

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:56 am

Well for some reason, html doesnt seem to like any image with "mech" in the name, for instance mechanic.gif just returns a 406 error. The path on this image is correct

Not anything to do with the image itself as I noticed this several times with different images....

Don't need a fix, I can work around it, more curious than anything... What could be causing this...? I did find some images on the web named mechanic so I assumed this was something specific to our servers... Smile

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

A 406 error is the error returned by mod_security when a filter kicks in. I will check and find out why we have that particular rule active. You will need to work around it at least for now.

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:33 pm

no problem just a curiousity more than anything

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:13 am

Hmm, well I'm working on doing a shortlink mod to the RN Docs module by nukecoder that adds the document titles to the urls, and again running into problems because the terms mech and mechanized have been used in titles.. returns 406 errors... server doesn't like anything named mech and mechanized Sad

is there any chance of a fix for this, or is it too complicated for security reasons?

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 12:37 pm

It is a security issue.