# "Unknown error saving post" when starting new topic with inline code
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 23, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861 "2015-04-23T15:11:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@gareth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gareth)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/1 "2015-04-23T15:11:20Z")
We just had an issue on our discourse where a user was getting an unhelpful error message trying to create a post with a code sample inline. I guess the code in question was not valid markdown, but the error could be handled more gracefully…
Attempting to post resulted in a lightbox with `Unknown error saving post, try again. Error: 0 error` and in the browser debug toolbar the error was reported as `net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET`. Nothing appears in the discourse admin error logs.
The code in question is reproduced below. It was included directly in the post without any markdown formatting:
```plaintext
set -e
git log --all -M -C --name-only --format='format:' "$@" | sort | grep -v '^$' | uniq -c | sort -n | awk 'BEGIN {print "count,file"} {print $1 "," $2}' > churn.csv
```
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### Author:  [@gareth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gareth)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/2 "2015-04-23T15:12:04Z")
Although I’m able to create a post on this discourse with the offending code in, so perhaps the bug has already been fixed or is dependent on more than just that code…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/3 "2015-04-24T02:04:42Z")
Can you reproduce this on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) ?
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### Author:  [@gareth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gareth)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/4 "2015-04-24T15:24:23Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
>
> Can you reproduce this on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) ?
Sadly not. The person in question can reproduce it, but I can’t myself even when I paste in the same content, on our discourse or on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org). She tells me the shortest string that reliably reproduces it is:
`--format='format:' "$@" | sort | grep -v '^$' | uniq -c | sort -n |`
Thanks for the pointer to [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) though. Might be worth putting a sticky post at the top of the bugs category to let people know they can try and repro bugs there without cluttering this forum (like I did!)
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### Author:  [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/5 "2015-04-24T15:57:05Z")
Is she getting any errors in her browser’s JavaScript console? If something goes wrong with the markdown parser, it should report any errors there.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/6 "2015-04-25T01:38:12Z")
Does this user have any browser plugins or non default browser settings? Does she also have this problem if she tries in a different web browser, one that she does not normally use?
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### Author:  [@dani\_m](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dani_m)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2015, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/7 "2015-04-27T10:17:16Z")
Hi All - we thought it would be easier if I responded directly.
I’ve just [posted the string in question on try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org/t/testing-adding-code/351) and it has posted with no problems.
Doing this on our discourse, when writing a topic with the following message:
> Some characters here then nothing
it posts to [Sign in to your account](http://discourse.softwire.com/draft.json) successfully
However, when writing a topic with the following message:
> Some characters here and then the code
> set -e
> git log --all -M -C --name-only --format=‘format:’ "@" | sort | grep -v '^’ | uniq -c | sort -n | awk ‘BEGIN {print “count,file”} {print $1 “,” $2}’ \> churn.csv
It posts to [Sign in to your account](http://discourse.softwire.com/draft.json) but errors with message (failed) net::ERR\_CONNECTION\_RESET
If I then try and post this message, a lightbox appears with "Unknown error saving pistm try again, Error:0 error. Looking in the console, the post to [Sign in to your account](http://discourse.softwire.com/posts) has failed again with net::ERR\_CONNECTION\_RESET
Hope that helps!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/8 "2015-04-28T01:38:00Z")
It looks like there is something between you and the server that is blocking that content, like anti-virus, firewall, or proxy. That is my guess. Does it happen if you post it from a mobile phone?
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/9 "2015-04-28T03:08:44Z")
The server isn’t hosted at DO…
```plaintext
$ curl ipinfo.io/31.221.86.178
{
"ip": "31.221.86.178",
"hostname": "No Hostname",
"city": "London",
"region": "London",
"country": "GB",
"loc": "51.5472,-0.1376",
"org": "AS25180 Exponential-e Ltd",
"postal": "NW5"
}
```
… so I think it’s your IDS (Intrusion Detection System) interfering, @dani_m.
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### Author:  [@gareth](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gareth)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 2:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/10 "2015-04-29T14:27:46Z")
Aha, thanks for you help guys! Glad we got to the bottom of it
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/11 "2018-09-29T18:42:49Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unknown-error-saving-post-when-starting-new-topic-with-inline-code/27861/12 "2018-10-02T00:44:03Z")