* * * * *
                                        
     “I am sorry, we cannot allow you to view this innocuous text file. For
                                   reasons.”
                                        
I found a bug in “Project: Sippy-Cup [1]”. The nature of the bug is not
important, but QA (Quality Assurance) and I were able to reproduce locally
the issue seen in production. So I ask QA to send a copy of the SIPp [2]
script (an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) file) so I could fix the issue.

> From: QA <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> To: Sean Conner <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
> Subject: Sipp command and xml for CP-209
> Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 4:27 PM
> 
> Access to attachments has been blocked. Blocked attachments:
> sipptestCp209.xml.
> 

Well then … okay. I have QA resend it, this time renamed to
sipptestCp209.txt. This time it shows up. I save it. Then …

> GenericUnixPrompt> more sipptestCp209.txt
> This attachment was removed because it contains data that could pose a
> security risk.
> GenericUnixPrmopt>
> 

Seriously? Just to convince myself it wasn't Mac OS-X's version of more that
was doing the conversion:

> GenericUnixPrompt> cat sipptestCp209.txt
> This attachment was removed because it contains data that could pose a
> security risk.
> GenericUnixPrmopt>
> 

So it's our overly paranoid email system's fault.

Gotcha.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2014/03/05.1
[2] http://sipp.sourceforge.net/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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