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Saving preferences or blocking (and probably various other things) give 403 error
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Using any account, when I click the "save" button to submit changes in my user preferences, I get

Request: POST http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences, from 10.64.0.102 via cp1065 frontend ([10.64.0.102]:80), Varnish XID 2174772612
Forwarded for: <My-IP-redacted>, 10.64.0.102
Error: 403, Noise at Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:37:28 GMT

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I tested with 3 accounts at 4 wikis in 2 browsers, trying to change/save a different preference each time.
Same results everywhere.

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Krenair renamed this task from Saving preferences gives 403 error to Saving preferences or blocking (and probably various other things) give 403 error.Sep 21 2015, 11:51 PM
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Sounds like this may have been caused by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/240009/

Change 240018 had a related patch set uploaded (by Faidon Liambotis):
Revert "block POSTs to pretty wiki URLs..."

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/240018

Change 240018 merged by Faidon Liambotis:
Revert "block POSTs to pretty wiki URLs..."

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/240018

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Should be fixed -- sorry for the trouble.