Error 403 on form submit

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The 403 Status Code means:

10.4.4 403 Forbidden

The server understood the request, but
is refusing to fulfill it.
Authorization will not help and the
request SHOULD NOT be repeated. If the
request method was not HEAD and the
server wishes to make public why the
request has not been fulfilled, it
SHOULD describe the reason for the
refusal in the entity. If the server
does not wish to make this information
available to the client, the status
code 404 (Not Found) can be used
instead.

The disclaimer seems to contain several HTML tags and they apparently get printed unescaped on the page.

My wild guess is that there’s a piece of software installed on the server (possibly mod_security) that rejects the input because it considers it’s an attempt to perform a XSS attack. You can confirm (or reject) this hypothesis by temporarily removing the < and > symbols before pasting it into the textarea.

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