[pmwiki-users] Strange edit problem with firefox

[karlh]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 10:16 am, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:01:04PM -0500, karlh wrote:
> > I have two installations of pmwiki on my website.  Both installations are
> > in their own sub-domain so are completely isolated from each other but
> > they are both on the same server so have access to the same system.
> >
> > The first installation is an older version of pmwiki and editing works
> > great with any browser I use.
> >
> > The second installation is the latest version as of April 1st (no joke). 
> > When I click on the edit button using Firefox v1.5 for any page I get a
> > blank page with the word, "Forbidden" at the top.  If I use Konqueror as
> > a browser though, I have no problems editing a page.
>
> You get the word "Forbidden" when you click the edit link, or when
> you attempt to save a page?
>
> It sounds to me as though PmWiki thinks your version of Firefox is a
> spider/robot, and is blocking access to ?action=edit.  Have you
> perhaps customized the "user-agent" setting in Firefox, to make it
> look like a robot?
>
> Are you able to use Firefox to edit pages on pmwiki.org?
>
> Pm

I was getting "Forbidden" when I clicked on "Edit".  After reading your reply, 
I tried deleting my ".mozilla" directory (in Linux) and then when I started 
up Firefox it works fine now.

Thanks for the info.

Karl

Thanks again to everyone for a great product!