Dossier Bug?

[Quebecshire]

Sorry if this has already been brought up, but essentially, whenever I go to dossier a nation that has ceased to exist (through the button to do so on the boneyard page), it tells me I have failed a security check and does not go through. I've been able to get around this and dossier by using the upload feature for the advanced dossier, but since some other people off-site mentioned having the same issue, I figured I would raise it.

Is this a bug, or is there something I'm doing that's causing it?

[Jar Wattinree]

I'll add that while you can dossier nations that are alive, and remove both CTE and alive nations from your dossier, it says "This request failed a security check" if you try and dossier a CTE nation.

[Roavin]

Is this a bug, or is there something I'm doing that's causing it?

It's a bug. The Tampermonkey script below fixes it - all you have to do is visit a (live) nation page once with the script, and then you can dossier CTE'd nations. The script should be smart enough to be dormant when the bug is fixed.

@Admin: boneyard's dossier form is missing the chk input.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         NS: Fix buggy nation dossiers
// @description  Adds missing "chk" inputs for forms
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      0.1
// @author       Roavin
// @match        https://www.nationstates.net/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=nationstates.net
// @grant        GM_getValue
// @grant        GM_setValue
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // if the page includes a chk code, store it
    var chkElement = document.querySelector("input[name='chk']");
    if (chkElement !== null) {
        GM_setValue("chk", chkElement.value);
    }

    // search for relevant forms that may be buggy
    var forms = document.querySelectorAll("form[action='page=dossier']");
    forms.forEach(form => {
        // does it have a chk input field?
        var chkElement = form.querySelector("input[name='chk']");
        if (chkElement == null) {
            // it does not - add it!
            var elm = document.createElement("input");
            elm.type = "hidden";
            elm.name = "chk";
            elm.value = GM_getValue("chk");
            form.appendChild(elm);
        }
    });
})();

[[violet]]

whenever I go to dossier a nation that has ceased to exist (through the button to do so on the boneyard page), it tells me I have failed a security check and does not go through.

Now fixed, thanks for the report.

[Jar Wattinree]

whenever I go to dossier a nation that has ceased to exist (through the button to do so on the boneyard page), it tells me I have failed a security check and does not go through.

Now fixed, thanks for the report.

Many thanks.