Title: bookmarklet 406 error Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # bookmarklet 406 error * [dezl0ck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dezl0ck/) * (@dezl0ck) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookmarklet-406-error/) * When attempting to use the bookmarklet feature in the final release of Firefox I get “406 Not Acceptable An appropriate representation of the requested resource/ wp-admin/bookmarklet.php could not be found on this server.” I’ve also tried using the JustBlogIt! Firefox plugin as well with the same result. I have managed to recreate this on WinXP SP2 with Firefox 1.0 and on Fedora Core 3 with Firefox- 1.0-2.fc3. has anyone else seen anything like this before? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookmarklet-406-error/#post-116391) * Have you right-clicked the bookmark, got the properties, pasted that into Notepad( or an equivalent) and checked the paths are what they should be ? * Thread Starter [dezl0ck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dezl0ck/) * (@dezl0ck) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookmarklet-406-error/#post-116557) * Since it was a 406 it appeared to be more server side than anything else. After contacting tech support they informed me that they’re blocking the request due to some security risks. After looking at their logs it does appear that mod_security is thinking that the bookmarklet is malicious. From Tech Support: this is because the authors of WordPress are using some malformed URL requests that are frequently used for cross site scripting attacks. I checked the security logs and your requests were indeed logged and flagged. Please contact the authors of WordPress and submit a bug report for their application. They might even apply you with a patch. From our experiences of dealing with them, they are quite open for suggestions and bug reports. Here is an excerpt of our security log: ======================== ================ Request: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx – – [07/Dec/2004:16:01:32 -0600] “GET/ wp-admin/bookmarklet.php?text=&popupurl=http%3A//www.domain.com/wp-admin/edit. php&popuptitle=WordPress%20%u203A%20Viet-Justice%20%u203A%20Posts HTTP/1.0” 406 271 Handler: application/x-httpd-php —————————————- GET /wp-admin/bookmarklet. php?text=&popupurl=http%3A//www.domain.com/wp-admin/edit.php&popuptitle=WordPress% 20%u203A%20Viet-Justice%20%u203A%20Posts HTTP/1.0 Accept: text/xml,application/ xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Cache-Control: max-age=259200 Connection: keep- alive Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: [http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/edit.php](http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/edit.php) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Via: 1.1 thor.atlantagothic.net:3128 (squid/2.5.STABLE6) X-Forwarded- For: 172.16.xxx.xxx mod_security-message: Access denied with code 406. Error normalizing REQUEST_URI: Invalid URL encoding detected: invalid characters used mod_security-action: 406 HTTP/1.0 406 Not Acceptable Connection: close Content- Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookmarklet-406-error/#post-116561) * It’s a server issue. This issue has been reported here a few times before. One was a fault with mod_security, and the other was a problem with apache itself. I suggest that you contact your hosting provider ASAP. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘bookmarklet 406 error’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bookmarklet-406-error/#post-116561) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics