Access denied when clicking link in email “Please confirm your subscription”

Hi,

If I try something like this I also get the error

https://www.ourfingertips.com/?permalink=https://www.example.com/

But if I try this I don’t

https://www.ourfingertips.com/?permalin=https://www.example.com/

So it seems that the server’s firewall doesn’t like the parameter permalink being used in there and blocks it.

It’s something you’ll need to contact the hosting provider about.

Good eye – please let me know when you update your plugin to use a parameter that won’t get blocked … otherwise I’m now looking for a different plugin to do this for me as I’m not changing hosting and not messing with the firewall or security.

Hi,

It’s a bit weird that “permalink” parameter is blocked, I don’t remember it being reported before or running into that issue in general.

We’ll look into changing the parameter name for the next update.

That would be great. If I may, it looks to me like we don’t need the parameter “&post_permalink=” and you can also remove the link “back to post” which is likely all you are using this for. Consider giving us a setting to disable these 2 things “remove permalink (set to yes if subscription URLs give Access denied error)” and setting that as default. In removing that parameter the “Manage subscriptions” page loads fine and lists our subscriptions to posts and each is linked to the posts … so no need for the “back to post” link and this will work for everyone. Same issue with the URL provided in the email “Manage your subscriptions on OURFINGERTIPS” with text “You have requested to manage your subscriptions to the articles on OURFINGERTIPS. Follow this link to access your personal page:”

This does NOT work (with post_permalink):

https://www.ourfingertips.com/comment-subscriptions/?srek=134cb2d60aa0e392dcd5dae964d7ecde&srk=cc16c9938376a732fd771a81db5c8606&srsrc=e&post_permalink=https://www.ourfingertips.com/

This works (without post_permalink):

https://www.ourfingertips.com/comment-subscriptions/?srek=134cb2d60aa0e392dcd5dae964d7ecde&srk=cc16c9938376a732fd771a81db5c8606&srsrc=e

P.S. If I may, separate issue but similar is that the subscribe URL on the bottom of posts loads a new page, where you could instead add form for just the email in the post “You can also?subscribe?without commenting.“