cannot search for the words 'create palette from document limit colors' and certain variants

[spinhead]

Not sure where this belongs: using Firefox on my Mac, searching for any of these sets of words

create palette from document limit colors
create palette from document limit
       palette from document limit colors
create         from document limit colors

returns a 403 Forbidden error. I can search for any of these groups of words just fine:

limit colors create palette from document (same words different order)
               from document limit
       palette from document limit
create palette      document limit colors
                    document limit
create palette               limit colors
create palette from document       colors
create palette from          limit colors
create         from document

The only consistency in the group of death is 'from document limit' but on its own, that search works.

 

[GarryP]

I’m not an expert in this area but I think you might be getting the “403 Forbidden” message as the website software thinks you are trying to use SQL Injection in the search box: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_injection.asp
There’s probably not much you can do except change the order of the keywords, as you have done.

[spinhead]

That was my assumption, but I would assume a site built by programmers would be using parameterized queries, making the concern of SQL injection irrelevant.

[GarryP]

As mentioned in my earlier post, "I'm not an expert", "I think", and "you might" are probably the key phrases.
I have no idea how the website software has been coded, and I have no experience of coding large/complex/highly-functional websites, so what I said is purely a guess.
(The message you get may not even have any relevance to the actual problem.)
I'll leave this to the experts to comment on further.

[spinhead]

Yes, understood; I appreciate you taking the time to comment, @GarryP. I *am* an expert, which is why maybe I went straight to talking over your head mode. Your non-expert status didn't seem to hurt—I'm pretty sure you nailed the cause. Hey, when you're ready to learn database web programming, I'll share what I know. If you can get this far, you already have the mindset for it ;)

[GarryP]

Thanks, but I’ve no intentions to get back into ‘the database game’ - I was a mainframe (non-relational) DBA for about eight years and that was enough for me.

[spinhead]

Ah. Fair enough. I'm a database junkie.