See also bug 164572: For security reasons Bugzilla blocks the string "." + "htaccess" to prevent abuse. However this also interferes with normal operation of Bugzilla (particularly evangelism issues). If you write a comment containing that string you get a confusing "no data" error. I suggest we either change the behavior to at least return a better error message or fix it so it is possible to use htaccess in the comments without a problem. It is confusing to tell people to create a new file "dot, and then htaccess"!

Uhh... say what? .htaccess there. is that blocked? Please explain what you mean. I'm lost.

Odd... I will try to reproduce the problem on a different configuration.

My comment worked, and I got what I typed in the email, too. WORKSFORME.

what version of Bugzilla are you running? I bet it's old... we used to have a bug with sending mail via sendmail where it would cut off the email if a line had a leading dot. I forget what version it was fixed in but it was a long time ago.

I had the problem right here. .htaccess ?

Worked in IE, so apparently this isn't Bugzilla's fault......

what problem? I'm still lost. Is it disappearing from your comment? does it not show up in the email?

.htaccess

This may be a conflict with Norton Personal Firewall 2003... .htaccess

.htaccess (filter spam: block, um, .htaccess)

Intrusion detection in NPF2003 is the source of the problem. If turned on, when submitting a Bugzilla post (or ANY post) containing .htaccess Norton will for some stupid reason block it causing the "no data" error. Completely independent of anything Bugzilla related, so forget this bug. :)