me: why did this customer send a tar? not that I can't get it open, but, please just use zip like a normal person
(I open the tar)
(inside is a zip)
@0xabad1dea Not even a .tar.gz, that'd be basically the opposite. Oh no, this is a Special kind of silly.
@0xabad1dea Maybe the mail filter removes zip attachments...? At my company a common workaround was to rename zip files to zipp.
@0xabad1dea Inside is an ARJ file (did I just age myself?)?
@0xabad1dea Maybe to get around a stupid mail filter?
@0xabad1dea And inside that zip is a word document. And inside that word document are copied and pasted images.
It's like a Matryoshka doll of suck and misunderstanding.
@0xabad1dea hey, at least it’s not a zip file in a PowerPoint presentation.
@0xabad1dea reminding me of the xml api that sent responses that began with <xml><![CDATA[ and then had escaped xml, before a final ]]></xml>
our best guess? the inner xml didn't quite validate against the schema provided, so it looked like a workaround
@0xabad1dea Ok, but sending doc files should be illegal.
@0xabad1dea still better than sending a .rar :D
@0xabad1dea The real answer is probably that their email sender rejected the contents of the zip, but doesn't know how to look inside a tar. This always used to be a problem for me since our email system at work wouldn't allow JS files as attachments (even inside of zip files) and I develop websites.
@0xabad1dea I'm no Linux expert but... Don't they usually go the other way around?
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I don't know why I can't remember half my life but remember -xvf when I haven't used it in 15 years. 🌿
@0xabad1dea made me go from sleepy to O.O real quick
@0xabad1dea amazing how many of these can unexpectedly be opened by Windows these days.
@0xabad1dea I wonder if the reason I still often see, for instance, release versions packaged as foobar.zip for Windows and foobar.tar.gz for Linux is just so they have different filenames.
@0xabad1dea Someone should make a wrapper named "bacon"
@0xabad1dea It is *conceivable* that the sender has had experience with zip attachments being blocked by overzealous (and dumb) email systems in the past. But that's kind of a stretch.
@0xabad1dea Customers 🤝🏻 Bad Actors: Nested archives
(because neither knows what they're doing until one accidentally discovers yet another dir traversal vuln or MotW bypass)
@0xabad1dea Everyone knows you need the tar to stick the zip together.
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And I fucking hate when people make zips that expand into the "current directory" rather than into a fresh clean sub dir.
Weird how tar's almost always do. It's almost like the two user types are differently abled.
@0xabad1dea FWIW I still prefer tar to zip since you can recover a partial tar, but a partial zip is unusable.
@0xabad1dea What was in the zip? A .iso? with a .7z? of a .jar?
This could be fun....
@klausfiend when was the last time you had a partial anything
@0xabad1dea lol old habits die hard? When I was still working in studios, incomplete zip files were a routine occurrence, and most offline editors had no idea what "tar" was.
@jon one time I couldn't find the documentation PDFs that the customer claimed they sent. They were all embedded in the last page of a superficial introductory powerpoint. They were baffled I didn't think to look there.
@wheeljack @foremostarchwiz it just hit me like a truck that the nineties-ness of this image isn't an affectation, it was just actually the nineties back in the nineties
