Sometimes after posting I get "Secure Connection Failed"

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Sometimes after posting I get "Secure Connection Failed"

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This has been happening for a couple of weeks or so. Sometimes when I make a post in Firefox, I get taken to a page that says "Secure Connection Failed".
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If this happens, then I can no longer access any pages on the forum - they all show the above message.

If I quit Firefox and restart it, I can visit forum pages again, and I can even visit the thread where I made the post. The post is always successful (i.e. whatever I posted is now added to the thread where I posted it). It's just that for some reason, posting confuses Firefox when it first tries to load the page with the newly added post.

It doesn't happen all of the time, and I have yet to figure out any common factor at play here, but it happens often enough to be annoying (especially as it means I have to exit Firefox and thereby close any other tabs I might have open).

I don't know if it's related or not, but I still sometimes get a 502 error on the forum (I reported this a while back). To clear that, I just have to hit F5 until the page loads properly, but I estimate that it happens with a similar level of frequency to the "Secure Connection Failed" error, so I was wondering if they might be related? e.g. perhaps if when posting something new, whatever causes the 502 happens, but because it coincides with a new post, it causes the "Secure Connection Failed" error instead? Or maybe that's a complete red herring.
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Re: Sometimes after posting I get "Secure Connection Failed"

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This has been happening since the WAF was added, and it's not something I really know how to solve. There are certain types of errors that will force the WAF to kill the connection no matter what, but it always seems to be much more of an issue when more bots than normal get past the first layer of security.
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Re: Sometimes after posting I get "Secure Connection Failed"

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Understood.
For some reason, I haven't noticed the problem with Chrome. That could just be because I rarely use Chrome, but I might start visiting here using more often it just to see if it makes a difference.
Thanks.
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