WordPress write functions resulting to a 404 (page not found) error
Posted on March 16th, 2006 by Erin
This week I encountered an error when writing the wget post since saving or publishing it causes a page not found (or 404 in techie parlance) error. I found this thread in the wordpress support forum and tested the “limit” scenarios which did not fully apply in my case. Posting a short test message works but somehow even one paragraph from my wget post causes the 404 message.
Later on the support thread I read a mod_security issue that causes in the post with the word curl in the post. That hit me, curl is a download utility similar to wget!!! Just like in the post, I just enclosed wget in span element and voila, problem solved!
+1 karma for internet support groups!
actually curl is _NOT_ a download utility.
actually it is[1].
[1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/
thanks for the tip. the span element worked for me too when using wget in an article.
cool, glad to be of service and thanks for leaving a comment.
ciao!