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tranceformer

12:28 pm on Dec 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I have a test site that has been reported as a forgery.
This warning pops up when I use Firefox 3.0.4, but now when using IE 7.0 or Firefox 2.0.

Who do I contact to remedy this situation? Firefox? I don't know where to begin!

StoutFiles

12:34 pm on Dec 16, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I have a test site that has been reported as a forgery.

Define test site. If it's a test site, does it really matter? And why would Firefox think this?

tranceformer

1:15 am on Dec 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It is a site that is basically a mirror of my live site, but I use it to test scripts before making them public.
It does matter because I am being blocked from submitting certain types of forms.

BTW, I meant 'not when using IE 7.0...' not 'now when using IE 7.0...', but I would rather not have to work in IE or an older version of Firefox...there should be a way to fix this right? Show the powers that be that I am the owner of both sites, right? But who to contact?

JS_Harris

2:02 am on Dec 17, 2008 (gmt 0)

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These might help...

#1 - add a robots.txt file to the test site and block it out of the serps completely. It shouldn't be on anyone's radar anyway.

#2 - go into your firefox settings and remove it from your browsers list of dangerous sites, unblock it's cookies.

#3 - go over the code and remove the offending parts that try to gather information from visitors automatically. Sometimes it's a cookie being set by an affiliate ad creative you're using. To test that clear your cookie and poke around, if you don't leave your site you should only see your sites cookies. It's not wise to serve third party cookies these days if it can be avoided, you've described one of the reasons why.