Here’s an edited transcript of a live chat with CrystalTech support (my Web host) that might help someone who has this problem in the future:<\/p>\n
Me: I’m having trouble posting to my WordPress blog at xxx.com. When I click the Publish button, the browser\u2019s status line says \u201cWaiting for xxx.com\u2026\u201d; the cursor turns to an hourglass; and it just stays like that until I click the Stop button on the browser. <\/p>\n
If I leave it for about 15 or 20 minutes, the browser (Chrome) throws an error: \u201cThe webpage at http:\/\/xxx.com\/wordpress\/wp-admin\/post.php might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address. Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.\u201d <\/p>\n
Can you see anything odd on the Web server that might be causing this?<\/p>\n
CT: Looks like our SRX firewall is blocking it. What this does is stops sql injections. I have seen this before with WordPress. I can disable it for your site, and it will stop blocking it. WordPress already has something that protects against sql injection anyways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2022142","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-blocking","topic-tag-cant-publish","topic-tag-cant-update","topic-tag-cant-post","topic-tag-crystaltech","topic-tag-post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2022142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2022142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}