This happens every now and again, so I've girded the proverbials to post about it in the hope that doing so may help. Someone got caught out by this problem yesterday evening, btw.
It's like this:
- The forum and the underlying framework software have a number of anti-hacking provisions built in
- The one that is the subject of this post prevents the posting of HTML objects such as object tags, scripts etc.
- This means that you can't post things like embedded movies.
- You can however post links to other pages which contain these objects.
- It is possible to change this via settings in the framework, but I'm reluctant to do so as someone might post an object that compromised security for members. We got hacked once (via a security loophole in the forum software, which loophole allowed SQL Injection attacks) and I still have nightmares about the backlash from all the idiots who thought that I was directly responsible for sending them nasty viruses.
I hope that you understand
Phil
Site owner /administrator