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Opened 18 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#2443 closed defect (bug) (worksforme)

"Error: This file cannot be used on its own." when leaving comments.

Reported by: nathancooke's profile NathanCooke Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Severity: major Version: 2.0
Component: General Keywords:
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Some of my users have complained about getting the cryptic Error: "Error: This file cannot be used on its own." when attempting to leave comments.

From the research I've done (​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/23942 and ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/35141 ) it appears that it is a setting on the client's browser and/or firewall that is causing the problem.

HOWEVER, with so many firewalls and/or browsers shipping with the setting to not send full referral info, the code needs to take that into account and at least provide a more detailed error message, but at best use more intelligent error handling to eliminate this issue.

Change History (1)

#1 @Nazgul
18 years ago

  • Resolution set to worksforme
  • Status changed from new to closed

Can't reproduce this behaviour.

  • The mentioned error message is no longer part of the code.
  • These days SCRIPT_FILENAME is being used instead of HTTP_REFERER for these types of checks.

So I'm closing this as a worksforme.

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