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Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS

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On Monday 22 July 2019 15:48:08 rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:

> On Monday, July 22, 2019 11:52:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:40:59AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > >    * but when I view source in my email client (kmail 3.n), I see
> > > just the "*
> > >
> > > From: Reco" that I see when viewing the email "normally".
> > >
> > > So, it seems, something is filtering out a lot of the content of
> > > the email before it gets to me (I don't think anything else in my
> > > system would be filtering anything out -- emails come directly
> > > from my ISP to my email client.
> > >
> > > A mystery that I won't dig into any deeper for now.
> >
> > Well, there are two possibilities.  One is that the messages are
> > actually being truncated during transmission.  The other is that
> > your email user agent is not showing you the full message text.
> >
> > The obvious way to figure out which one it is would be to read the
> > email in a different way (cat, less, mutt, mailx, ...).
>
> Ok, that fooled me -- I expected that the kmail command "view source"
> would let me see the entire email regardless of how it might be
> "rendered" in the kmail text box, but I was wrong.
>
> When I view that email in kwrite, I see all of the content, and, then
> around the email address (recoverym4n@enotuniq.net, after the *	From:
> Reco in the body of the email I see two characters that look like
> triangles -- I'll try looking at those in hexedit...
>
> Ok, it looks like there is a 0x00 in the byte before the email address
> (which is presumably disabling all further rendering in this version
> of kmail (1.13.7, on kde 4.8.4), and a 0x09 in the byte after the
> email address.
>
> So, I guess I have a way to send secret messages (to, at least, myself
> ;-)

Me too.  That make 3 bugs in V1.9.1 that need some tlc. And one of them 
is a major PITA to fix, it can occasionally scramble the indexes. But, 
its still an old friend.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS peter@easthope.ca - 2019-07-22 15:50 +0200
  Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-22 16:50 +0200
  Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-07-22 17:10 +0200
    Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2019-07-22 17:20 +0200
      Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-07-22 17:50 +0200
        Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-22 18:00 +0200
          Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-22 19:10 +0200
            Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-22 19:20 +0200
            Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-22 22:30 +0200
          Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-07-22 21:50 +0200
            Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-22 23:30 +0200
            Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-23 02:10 +0200
    Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-22 17:30 +0200
      Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-22 18:00 +0200
        Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2019-07-22 19:00 +0200
          Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-07-22 19:20 +0200
            Re: HTTP shimmed to HTTPS Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier@mailoo.org> - 2019-07-22 19:40 +0200

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