Comments on: Garbled Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:42:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83150 Fred Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:42:47 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83150 Hehe, yeah, I switched it to http after a few problems with my SSL CA. I only wanted the admin pages to be encrypted anyway, but the Wordpress SSL plugin didn't quite spare the public pages. :-/ Btw. I "fixed" the entities for you so they show up the way you intended. :) Hehe, yeah, I switched it to http after a few problems with my SSL CA. I only wanted the admin pages to be encrypted anyway, but the Wordpress SSL plugin didn’t quite spare the public pages. :-/

Btw. I “fixed” the entities for you so they show up the way you intended. :)

]]> By: Neil http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83149 Neil Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:39:22 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83149 Sigh. Let's try putting the characters on separate lines: & # 1 9 5 ; & # 1 7 4 ; Sigh. Let’s try putting the characters on separate lines:
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]]> By: Neil http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83146 Neil Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:36:04 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83146 Oops, this blog turned my entities into the actual characters... I meant to say that I saw î in the source... seeing î would have been an understandable charset mixup. P.S. Thanks for turning the submit link into http, I was having trouble posting comments using the latest nightlies! (DOM Inspector to the rescue...) Oops, this blog turned my entities into the actual characters… I meant to say that I saw î in the source… seeing î would have been an understandable charset mixup.

P.S. Thanks for turning the submit link into http, I was having trouble posting comments using the latest nightlies! (DOM Inspector to the rescue…)

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83053 Fred Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:54:31 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83053 Laurens, I agree, using UTF-8 would have probably avoided that but maybe it's also just a case of Javascript insertion attack "fix" gone wrong. Regarding Zach, don't mind him -- he's a friend of mine and this is how he becomes when he's deprived from freedom fries too long. ;) Laurens, I agree, using UTF-8 would have probably avoided that but maybe it’s also just a case of Javascript insertion attack “fix” gone wrong.

Regarding Zach, don’t mind him — he’s a friend of mine and this is how he becomes when he’s deprived from freedom fries too long. ;)

]]> By: Laurens Holst http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83050 Laurens Holst Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:32:17 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83050 Well, very typical for the average English-language site. If only they would pay just a tiny itsy bit of attention to internationalisation, or you know, just doing the right thing and use UTF-8. It’s not that hard. Zach, non-freedom characters? What exactly is ‘free’ about being artifically restricted from using the characters that you’re supposed to use? Well, very typical for the average English-language site. If only they would pay just a tiny itsy bit of attention to internationalisation, or you know, just doing the right thing and use UTF-8. It’s not that hard.

Zach, non-freedom characters? What exactly is ‘free’ about being artifically restricted from using the characters that you’re supposed to use?

]]> By: zach http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83046 zach Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:55:32 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83046 that's what you get for spelling your name with non-freedom characters. that’s what you get for spelling your name with non-freedom characters.

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83010 Fred Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:36:41 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83010 Hm, actually I can't quite use it right away now because the TLS servername extension is not supported in lighttpd yet -- guess I will have to play with gnutls on Apache for that, but I read that for some people this resulted in <a href="http://www.g-loaded.eu/2007/08/10/ssl-enabled-name-based-apache-virtual-hosts-with-mod_gnutls/: rel="nofollow">severe load spikes</a>. I have several domains on a single IP and a few of them require SSL (for encryption, not identification purposes). Hm, actually I can’t quite use it right away now because the TLS servername extension is not supported in lighttpd yet — guess I will have to play with gnutls on Apache for that, but I read that for some people this resulted in severe load spikes.

I have several domains on a single IP and a few of them require SSL (for encryption, not identification purposes).

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83007 Fred Sun, 14 Oct 2007 06:55:58 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-83007 Ah, thanks for the link! I should change my certificate. The one I have is not self-signed but signed (and certified) by CACert, but since their root CA hasn't made it into browsers yet, that doesn't help much I guess ;) Ah, thanks for the link! I should change my certificate.

The one I have is not self-signed but signed (and certified) by CACert, but since their root CA hasn’t made it into browsers yet, that doesn’t help much I guess ;)

]]> By: Lee Houghton http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-82994 Lee Houghton Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:38:41 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-82994 At least the entity's hex value has an "e" in it. If you automatically skip the other characters like I did, it almost makes sense! PS. http://cert.startcom.org/ Posting from IE because minefield dislikes your self-signed certificate, and adding exceptions is a pain ;) At least the entity’s hex value has an “e” in it. If you automatically skip the other characters like I did, it almost makes sense!

PS. http://cert.startcom.org/
Posting from IE because minefield dislikes your self-signed certificate, and adding exceptions is a pain ;)

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-82986 Fred Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:53:37 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/10/13/garbled-fred/#comment-82986 Well, had it been in an HTML email, I wouldn't quite have minded -- sadly enough the entities were sent plain. With two of them in one first name, it gets slightly unreadable ;) Well, had it been in an HTML email, I wouldn’t quite have minded — sadly enough the entities were sent plain. With two of them in one first name, it gets slightly unreadable ;)

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