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[_] Aargh! Wordpress - Precondition failed

Adam Beaumont adambeaumont at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 09:29:57 GMT 2007

On 14/02/07, Peter Ferne <petef at bristolwireless.net> wrote:
> It seems that simple edits to a wordpress theme (such as adding some
> alternate stylesheets to header.php) will sometimes arbitrarily
> result in a '412 precondition failed' and at other times be '200 OK'.
> Any idea why?
>
> No I don't have the 'Bad behaviour' plugin installed. I'm running
> v2.0.1.
> --

I have had this error message before after a user edited a page and
included the word 'Selection'. The problem was occuring because of
some mod_security settings my webhost had applied to filter stuff. A
quick email and they lifted the filters, all was fine.

Adam