User blocked for trying to embed YouTube Video

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:19 pm

I'm afraid to post the actual email contents I got because I might get banned from here. A user of mine tried to embed a YouTube video in a forum post and got blocked. Just a heads up. Its probably because the object and embed tags had a h-t-t-p string in them.

Yup I got blocked for trying to post this the first time. Confused

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:32 pm

Yes, that would be my guess if it was the Abuse-String blocker...

BTW, the author of NukeSentinel is considering writing a way to have the admin also store "exclusion strings". This would be a tremendous help for webmasters to allow valid uses of "http", but it has to be done very carefully and will take some time to evolve...

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:10 am

Yeah I think that would help. It would also be good if you could automatically exclude your own site URL, and then you would not get blocked when clicking on external links within the admin pages.

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:44 pm

Hhhmmmm... interesting idea. Just sent a few folks an email to see what they say about this.

Involved Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 296

I just saw this thread a little too late.
I wanted to have a video forum on my site, but alas.
I understand I can just add e-m-b-e-d and the other s/cripts to the config, but that is not too cool.
It'd be great to be able to give h/tml permissions to certain users via Groups, so you know only the trusted ones are going to use them.

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:24 pm

Quickie workaround is to go in and allow those tags in forums, post the vids, then go back and delete the tags. Or maybe I'll go check out some of the Nuke Video modules that have popped up here.