Funny Thing - You Can Place Text Into

[KazaaSearch]

I have investigated a little bug in Kazaa trying to find a way to masquerade filename.
What I found is that Kazaa programmers were a little smarted and consciously or not blocked that thing.

In brief:
Kazaa uses a special symbol as delimiter between columns when sending textual information to its tree views (Search results, Downloads, Uploads). If you place this symbol into Title or artist of the file you share, someone else may see the line representing your file screwed up, because you messed up the order of columns with that trick. I thought that this is a way to mimick file name and username. But all I managed to spoil was the Progress column in Uploads and Downloads view, in which it is really possible to place a desired text. Other columns are shown correctly. File name, size, username cannot be masked like that. And this text in Progress column is only visible when it is not active; when you are actually dlding, it is replaced by progress indicator. So, the bug is very, very little, but still a bug

So if anyone wants to surprise people, he can arrange titles of his files so that users downloading from him see any text in Progress column

Not sure if this trick can be named "tip", i post it just for fun

Screenshot

[DrSpud]

Interesting.... But what was the special symbol? I'd like to know. Definitely a wierd trick.

[Wolfmight]

cool, but umm how do I do this now? hehe

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by DrSpud@14 February 2003 - 15:30
Interesting.... But what was the special symbol? I'd like to know. Definitely a wierd trick.

hint:
this special symbol is also used as delimiter of columns for found files in KazaaSearch.list

if you use it LOL

you may say i'm playing with you. well, yes

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

how did you download off yourself???

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

that is cool as hell

[Bender]

Don't tell them, please...

[N£MO]

I_DONT_SHARE_PORN Posted on 15 February 2003 - 12:30
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how did you download off yourself??? 

Think if you read kazaasearch's description at the top he isn't downloading off himself just changing the progress bar to show text....

[I_DONT_SHARE_PORN]

THANKS FOR NOT CLEARING THAT UP!

[KazaaSearch]

Download from myself? Any problems, guys? DietK IP browser!