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Re: My Airlock
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:15:24 GMT
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson writes:
> > "Marlon Smith" <X_LR8R@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:HB0CI8.JA4@lugnet.com...
> > >
> > > It is probably common for an "=" sign to be followed by the "3D" symbols on
> > the web >interface when the post originates in Outlook Express (just
> > guessing).
> > > I think it also adds "=20" after "--" in such a post.
> >
> > The '=3D' is an encoding of '=', '=20' is ' '. Somewhere in the
> > transfer/quoting chain the information that the text is encoded has
> > disappeared.
> >
> > Marlons initial post:
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> > So I'd say it's Tim's newsreader that errors on the encoding...
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> I'm using the web interface for LUGNET, with MSIE 5.0. It displayed the link
> like that in Marlon's original post too -
> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=9501. Clicking on the link
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3D35441 for me reaches Kevin
> Loch's pictures of Mindfest.
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> -Tim
>
> xfut -> admin.nntp
Yes, it appears that when Marlon posted that message the encoding got
screwed up. He's posting from Hotmail, so that's not a surprise.
I think the 3D35441 is being interpreted as just 3. I'm guessing
Brickshelf uses Perl, and in Perl, when converting a string such as
"3D35541" to a number, everything after the first non-numeric
character is ignored. There would probably also be a warning message
generated but it would appear in the Brickshelf log files which
probably are never seen by human eyes...
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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| (...) yes, you are probably correct. (...) tsk tsk, you never take tainted data and just blindly trust it, do you? :) I agree that everything from the 'D' on is dropped, but probably because Kevin, in his infinite wisdom, made brickshelf make SURE (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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