gpg clear signed message on website

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On 03/09/12 13:07, anotst01 at fastmail.fm wrote:

> The goal is to sign a message on a webserver.
> 
> I clear signed a plain text file and double checked I can still
> verify it. The resulting clear signed text has been put into a new
> file surrounded by
> 
> <pre> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ....... -----END PGP
> SIGNATURE----- </pre>
> 
> and saved as file.html. When I open file.html with a browser, copy
> the text into a text file and store it, I get a bad signature.
> 
> What is the correct syntax for a website source to show a gpg
> signed message?

It's a complete ball-ache. I've done this myself on my front page
here: https://grepular.com/ - I found that different browsers put
different things in the clipboard when you select text and copy it.
They usually mess with white-space and line endings. I originally used
<pre> myself for that page, but ended up using a <p> and lots of <br>
instead to make it play nicely with more browsers. To stop the
white-space collapsing in on it's self, for alignment, I replaced
every other consecutive space with a unicode no-break space character
instead. That might not be obvious to you if you just do a "view
source". Also, to make things difficult that page is "compressed". Sorry.

I don't have any hard and fast rules to make this work, but I've
messed with it long enough to have a feeling for what to do when
something doesn't.

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Mike Cardwell  https://grepular.com/     http://cardwellit.com/
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