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by billpg 4y ago
POP3 still has widespread use as a machine-to-machine bulk email transport. If you want to switch from an old mailbox to gmail, it'll ask you to configure a POP3 client which it will poll and download messages from.
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So, you want to write a POP3 service?(github.com)
34 points by billpg 4y ago|13 comments
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by billpg 4y ago
(Nostalgia.) I had an MS-DOS app calls SCRPAINT which was a painting app for the 80x25 text mode. You could draw lines and it would do the right thing when lines bended at right angles or crossed by looking up the junction character code fo
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by billpg 4y ago
Suppose I use Stripe in a similar way to HIBP and a customer comes along just as my server has gone down, would Stripe try again later? I think it should wait a little while but I'd hope it'd automatically try again later as long
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by billpg 4y ago
My laptop with its finite RAM isn't Turing Complete? Wow.
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by billpg 4y ago
You'd hate the Holocene Calendar then. (This year is the year 12023.)
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by billpg 4y ago
I thought about that but I didn't want to be stuffing bytes back into the incoming stream and I didn't want to be reading the stream byte-by-byte either unless I really had to. I had a nice bit of code that read blocks of bytes an
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by billpg 4y ago
It is very possible my information is out of date or I was using an older version of dot-net. Thank you!
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by billpg 4y ago
Yep. While I did fix the bug as soon as I found it, I consider myself fortunate I chose POP3 to write my first server.
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by billpg 4y ago
That's a flaw in dot-net's SslStream library. You don't get an opportunity to know what host the client is expecting before selecting the cert for this session. Reading discussions around this issue usually settle on reading
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by billpg 4y ago
I'm writing (as a side project) a game with a client-server system. For the server, I'm using dot-net's SslStream (in TLS mode) and it needs to know which TLS cert to use prior to handing over control of the connection. For t
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by billpg 4y ago
I'm writing a POP3 service ( http://billpg.com/POP3/ ) and I stumbled upon this as a bit of a forehead-slapping moment. Once I read about it, I tried attacking my own server by sending in "STLS\r\nCAPA\r\n&quot
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by billpg 4y ago
Thank you Brexit!
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by billpg 4y ago
My grandmother had a spaghetti loom to make lasagna sheets.
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by billpg 4y ago
I've installed and run applications that run out of my user folders (not Program Files) without having to UAC.
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by billpg 4y ago
If I have write access to the machine's files, I could install a key-logger.
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by billpg 4y ago
Needs more JSON.
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by billpg 4y ago
Is it actually DNS, or is there a custom name-to-IP lookup process going on? Also, am I just needlessly splitting hairs?
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by billpg 4y ago
When I was reading about Turing Completeness as a child, I remarked to my mother that "Computers can do anything". She quickly told me that wasn't right. I went back and thought about what I actually meant. My revised stateme
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by billpg 4y ago
Welcome to the life of someone actually called Alexa.
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“Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?”(davidallengreen.com)
1 points by billpg 4y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 4y ago
One thing I wish git did differently was to have an atomic commit-and-push operation. I'd like to prepare my commit as normal, but when its ready, it pushes that commit as well, but if that push fails, it undoes the commit. Why? I rece
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by billpg 4y ago
"This Internet-Draft will expire on November 3, 2021." Oh. Never mind then.
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by billpg 4y ago
I wonder if anyone's working on compiling SQLite's C code into C# so it can run without interop.
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by billpg 4y ago
It was quite some time (embarrassingly so) before I realised that this has nothing to do with SQLite.
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by billpg 4y ago
Exactly how panicked should I be right now?
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by billpg 4y ago
I wonder if it would be practical for any web server that receives a TLS request for any domain it doesn't know about (but has nonetheless arrived on the server) to make a Let's-Encrypt request for that domain and respond to the o
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by billpg 4y ago
Oh go on.
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by billpg 4y ago
You could store the bytes of an EXE inside an image, just like how I could paste the base-64 of an EXE on the end of this message. The trick is going from that to actually running it. TVoKSGVsbG8gdGhlcmUuClRoYW5rIHlvdSBmb3IgcmVhZGluZyBteSBl
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by billpg 4y ago
"Ah, it'll be a joke programming language. Someone probably made a joke about C++ and then someone with too much time on their hands actually wrote an implementation of the language." (Reads the page.) "Oooh. Interesting

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