Re: fingerprint submitter should strip whitespace

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:39:59PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:55:18AM +0200, Hans Meine wrote:
> > I was about to submit some interesting fingerprints via 
> > http://insecure.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service, but the "check" button 
> > kept telling me that it was not OK.  At last, I realized that my terminal 
> > appended some whitespace when copy-pasting.  IMHO trailing whitespace should
> > be ignored.
>
> Hi Hans.  Tahnks for the report, but I'm having some trouble
> reproducing this.  What, exactly did you paste in?  I just tried
> adding spaces to the end of individual lines, at the end of the whole
> fingerprint, and even added some newlines to the beginning, end, end
> and middle.  And it still says "Fingerprint looks good!" in green.

I was trying the same thing. I only got the red text when I put extra
whitespace at the end of the first line. It didn't happen on any of the
other lines, as far as I could tell.

David Fifield

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