[tor-bugs] #17231 [ExoneraTor]: HTML ​ in middle of fingerprint results in corrupted copy/paste

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#17231: HTML ​ in middle of fingerprint results in corrupted copy/paste
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     Reporter:  starlight   |      Owner:
         Type:  defect      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major       |  Milestone:
    Component:  ExoneraTor  |    Version:
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:
Actual Points:              |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:5 starlight]:
 > Plain spaces would work fine.  But I must say I despise, with prejudice,
 fingerprints formatted in this way.  Requires one to manually edit out the
 spaces to use it anywhere that matters.  And manual editing is well
 established to be error prone.

 Well, yes, a requirement here would be that most places accept
 fingerprints containing spaces.  #17115 would solve all tools that are
 using Onionoo as their data back-end.  What other use cases am I missing
 where somebody looks up a relay using ExoneraTor, copies the fingerprint,
 and pastes it somewhere?

 > Perhaps just use a very small font size.  Perhaps a clever HTML
 mechanism exists to make an object copy with a different value than what
 is displayed?  Then 1B9BA4AF... could be displayed and a right-click copy
 would pull the full value.  Or require that the full FP be retrieved on a
 minimalist page/pop-up.  Or only display the fingerprint once on a line by
 itself, emit the line on page/visual breaks and whenever it changes.

 These all sound like fine ideas, and we'll have to do something like this
 anyway once we add ed25519 identities in addition to the RSA identities.
 Those won't contain spaces anyway, so we'll have to use some other trick
 to keep printouts still useful.

 I wonder if we can find a web designer to help us try out these solutions.

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