Xhtml Puns

So i went into my email, and notices 2 emails recieved from Russian people (Written in Russian)

The emails have rnadom English letters in all caps in the email subject and email body, and a xhtml files attached to them.

Gmail did not flag them as spam mail, and I saw them at my main inbox.

I'm adding print screens of them, really curious whats this is all about

Thanks in advance!

https://preview.redd.it/kcannkipnnu71.png?width=1530&format=png&auto=webp&s=4cfea824b1b3e0a2ba923610bd8887e95341e7b8

mail 1

mail 2

Yesterday, when I was about to go to bed, I got a weird email with an attached xhtml file.

The E-mail

When I tried opening it, it didn't redirect me anywhere so I decided to open it using VSCode to look inside. This is the code that is in this file:

xhtml code

I'm a web developer myself so what immediately caught my attention was this atob() function with a long string in it. I haven't seen this function before, nor heard about it, so I looked it up. It turns out it's a base-64 decoder https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_atob.asp . So I decoded this string and got this link: http://domen0001.pro/6TS7Z7bC?557648tjvwuzqe (It's safe to visit). It got me to a "Bitcoin Cloud Mining Farm" . It said that my account was locked and asked me to enter a new 6 number pin. Those 6 numbers are in this same link. After I entered the pin-code it shows me that I have accumulated over >0.7BTC waiting to be transferred to me. ( I don't recall ever signing up for this). It asked my BTC address, so knowing it's actually safe to post your crypto wallet address anywhere, I pasted in my BTC address from Binance.
Finally, this is where it gets very suspicious. They ask me to transfer a "miners fee" of minimum 0.00193BTC to them so they can release "my" 0.7BTC transaction to me:

https://preview.redd.it/3msliu3tf6v71.png?width=1211&format=png&auto=webp&s=d7ae21b88821ae5754c2f11785dc4c2597888036

So, I checked their BTC address first: 3FmyVL9rwhWhCejWnB1jn3sYk4ZRP5D24m
Strangely, in Bitcoin Abuse Database checking this address didn't show anything bad? https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/reports/3FmyVL9rwhWhCejWnB1jn3sYk4ZRP5D24m I don't think I'll transfer that miners fee.

What do you guys think? It definitely looks like a sophisticated scam to me. Since, no matter what link I press on this site, it doesn't work.

Dear Redditers and Code crackers!

Recently I've been receiving a couple of seemingly dangerous emails which somehow dodged Google's spam filter. I checked the original email which actually showed the text inside the html file and it had some Base64 code in it, which led to a website. (Probably virus stuff, so no touchy risked...)

Anyways the email had some text in the body that looked like it could actually be a hidden message. They looked like words with different length and and had space between them so it seemed like a coded sentence. At first I did not care about it but when I started to receive more and more it really started bugging me. I will share the texts inside of it, and some pictures. Obviously I will not paste the attachment or the link.

Do you think it actually means something, or it's just randomly generated text to trick Google?

Thanks for your answers! Have a nice day~! (V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf ... >!V ubcr!<)

BODY TEXTS:

• 1st: 4Q 70023 RWUT6D 87102 TCYZ2D 56453 WJBL0A 843 YNOJ5A 1610 TPBR3A 3367 WFUX5V 82083 NHHC0W 833 BGGD6R 514 HUOK3O 43507 ZWUA
• 2nd: 7W 4587 KZKH7N 706 SGBL6O 23628 FXFA5P 636 JPUN2J 77007 TZEX7L 37452 HXBD4B 4774 GFQN
• 3rd: EWNUBQ FTOPAZ CDYR XBV UEKFN FDYE YNBXG ABFAG PYK UIR IUXCZ BEOG CCOEEI HPK BVYTCF
• 4th: WRR QHDQ GZSVZLO PLAIJYK NWCNY
• 5th: XVY YGD (this one is the latest one and had nothing in the body, only the title. This is the only one having xhtml attachment, so I would not be able to see what is in the attachment without downloading it and opening it... would not risk it)

This is how the emails usually look like.

In my userContent.css I want to restrict styles to certain documents.

The problem I'm facing with internal Firefox pages like for example the error pages (see this dns error page) or about pages is that I'm unable to find the url I should use.

What method do you use to find these? Is there anything in the Inspector that I'm missing?

What's an API? I know it's a machine or a function, but am I looking for an entire page of code? The API spans across the entire library of a website document, doesn't it? Since we're always using API functions, shouldn't every function have a little bit of Javascript in it?

I don't know what I'm doing, I've been learning for a about a week and feel comfortable, but I'm hitting a huge wall.

I'm working on a web scraper for a small business to access publicly available information from a .gov website for the purpose of generating a mailing list.

I'm new to Python. I've been around HTML for the better part of 10 years, but simple web development - no javascript. I've been raised around a group of network engineers, but I'm just now starting a degree in database infrastructure.

I'm viewing the source on the webpage and I'm reverse engineering. To tell you the truth, this is where I know I'm in over my head.

I wonder if I can parse the XHTML / Javascript into python language, skip the middle-man pages, and generate a request to their servers using their own javascript, which returns the information I'm looking for?

I think I've found the spot in their script to populate *the* request field with information.

<body onload="setupWindow();">
	<a name="topofpage"></a>
	<table class="outerTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 
		<tbody>
		<form name="filingDateSearchForm" id="filingDateSearchForm" method="post" action="/ENTERWEBSITE/VARIABLE/filingDateSearch.do">
			<input type="hidden" name="inputVO.Type" value="ENTERVARIABLE">
			<input type="hidden" name="inputVO.startDate" value="12/01/2020">
			<input type="hidden" name="inputVO.errFlag" value="N">

Etc etc until all the fields are populated. To be clear, this information is what I submitted when performing the search, then I found this by looking for what I had submitted.

Then I've found other pages that have lists of functions or machines that correspond with the names of the inputVO.whatever.

My questions are:

Where do I go to begin learning about parsing HTML? I'm using PyCharm and Python 3.9.

Do I need to use parsing? Or can I use javascript in python via a plugin or something to generate my own request?

The options are dizzying. These people want to pay me for this. What does a web scraper cost? I see that companies are doing it online for a few hundred. This is good practical practice, but I may be ab

I'm learning jsf using netbeans and I'm in over my head here. I can successfully work with my database. But I'm confused about how to output my data from the database? I have rows with multiple values and a function that queries for those rows, but how do I output that as a table?

Any help or simple examples welcome!

So I was following Dr Angela Yu's Web Development course, and she was teaching how to code in HTML. Now, in my college curriculum, there is XHTML, CSS and XML in the course. Can you suggest me how should I approach with XHTML and subsequently XML? (I have completed the HTML, HTML intermediate, CSS, and CSS intermediate of that course).

Thank you.

Hi guys I'm trying to get into programming but I accidentally bought the wrong Head First book. I was wondering if I can still use it as a starting point? I got the older 2005 version with XHTML which isn't relevant anymore as far as I know. Is there much of a difference between this version and the newer one without XHTML? Thanks!

When 73 will be released, you might notice some of your CSS stopped working.

So instead of this: @-moz-document url("chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul") { blah blah blah }

You change it to this: @-moz-document url("chrome://browser/content/places/places.xhtml") { blah blah blah }

Support for parent application https://www.iaccess.gov.on.ca/ParentAppWeb/parentapp/index.xhtml

when I started making websites, I was using Dreamweaver 2004. there were a few options, the main ones being HTML or XHTML 1.1. well, just learning by playing, I thought XHTML was cool, and that was what I used everywhere for many years.

now though, no one uses it and it's dead. browsers still accept single tags closed like that. you can do <br /> or <img src="your phone://nudes/thatEmbarassingOneYouNeverSent.bmp" /> or <hr />

I'm not aware of any browsers that have an issue even if you don't have an XHTML header.

anyway, I do my best not to, but I'm relearning rails for the first time since 2.3 and the course I'm using is really good, it's on rails 6 so pretty recent, I think it was made this year the video, and the guy is using <be />s. I always thought I'd get hate and scorn for it, like one of those things some people hate (for example, some people wouldn't like my style

class Reddit

{

  private void Member()

  {

        local variable = camelCased; //and no int I; string s; - int count; int returnString (etc)

  }

}

anyway bit of a tangent but do people still use XHTML anywhere? do you think people would care if I went back to doing non closing tags like that because I think it just makes sense? if you think most people don't care, do you think I should go full XHTML spec, declare the header etc? because I'll be using modern web functions that aren't part of the XHTML spec, but they'll still work, because browsers don't seem to care...

sorry for going on a bit but I would like to know what you guys think. I would love to be able to do that on my own code, again, it looks better and makes sense in my opinion in place of a closing tag (although maybe making all tags have a closing tag would be cool, it's already optional for tags like <p>. You could maybe write atop an image using <IMG>some text</IMG> - like a simple box element with a background but with default scaling. or you could use hr like a massive strikethrough with a display: block. or maybe more variables in a <link>? that one would be so usefukz but neither is the closing script tag when you use it as a scriptsrc.

A client I am working with is asking me to create a custom HTML email based off a design their designer created. Easy enough with a little trouble shooting.

The tricky part is they are asking if this can be editable by their marketing team using the page builder. Basically they want to edit my custom email the same way you can edit one of Constant Contacts built-in templates.

After some extensive research, this seems kind of... impossible? I know you can put custom variables in your HTML using the $SUBSCRIBER.CUSTOMTEXTn variable. But these values would have to be put into each contacts profile and assigned a value, for each of the thousands of contacts on their email list.

I don't want to accept defeat just yet. But if I'm not mistaken, the custom code is mainly meant for one-of-a-kind emails for special events, sales, promotions, etc. that wont need to be rinsed and reused week after week.

For some reason this very simple webpage does not validate at all, even though it looks perfectly fine.

Even if I remove everything in head AND body, it still doesn't validate, for the same reasons. (if this is a dumb question, please know that I haven't used xhtml before)

Not really, but a brother has gotta rant somewhere

Hi guys,

I hope this is the right sub for this.

I am trying to save an xhtml file from the IRS.gov website to send into my mortgage lender.

I cannot seem to save it in a format that I am able to share.

Does anyone have any advice or recommendations?

Thank you in advance.

Out of all the websites I've ever seen that claim to be valid XHTML, I think I have yet to see one that actually is. I'm pretty sure it's worse to claim to be something you're not, instead of never claiming anything to begin with so why do these web designers do it? What's the point? Raising awareness? But how can you even do that when your own work is not valid?

I know getting your site to be valid is really not all that useful and is more about nerdy bragging rights than anything else, but when I see these "valid XHTML" tags on websites I don't know whether to laugh at the designer's ignorance of his own work or pity him for blatantly lying.

Where do you guys stand on this? For me and my own website, I don't rest until the W3 validator says there are zero errors and zero warnings. It's just a matter of principle.