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Topic: Forum Search  (Read 1367 times)
« on: May 21, 2007, 03:03:21 PM »
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When I try to search the T35 Forum I receive this message:

An Error Has Occurred!
You are not allowed to search for posts in this forum.

How come?  shocked
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2007, 04:55:30 PM »
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Search was disabled because it was abused. The next version of SMF should resolve this exploit and we will re-enable it.
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2007, 01:10:14 PM »
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The best way to search most websites I found, is to use google.com in advance mode, where by you limit the search to a specific domain. I'm not guaranteeing that it will work here as I've not tried it here.  grin
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It's what you do when you are a webmaster. LOL
Or what people do to my head, after I make a big mistake!
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2007, 02:27:33 PM »
It's not the code that's bad, it's the coder.
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Quote from: Alex Melen on May 22, 2007, 04:55:30 PM
Search was disabled because it was abused. The next version of SMF should resolve this exploit and we will re-enable it.

Wow, a lot of things get 'abused' on this site.

In what way was the search abused?
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« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2007, 04:37:40 PM »
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The search function of the SMF forums can be exploited to take control of the server (actually, take control of the user/group on which the forum is running). And yes, when you have so many members, things are bound to be abused, unfortunately. There was a day when we used to offer cgi and email ... but alas, you can't offer things for free without a small group of people ruining it for everyone else.
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