From 660997f8e77e192abf56230e062c70cc3a154b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 15:40:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Quick hack for excessively long messages

- only process the first MB of a message for GUI purposes
(parsing/rendering)
---
 src/bitmessageqt/messageview.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/bitmessageqt/messageview.py b/src/bitmessageqt/messageview.py
index 40830a70..882dbb81 100644
--- a/src/bitmessageqt/messageview.py
+++ b/src/bitmessageqt/messageview.py
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ class MessageView(QtGui.QTextBrowser):
         self.html.reset()
         self.html.reset_safe()
         self.html.allow_picture = True
-        self.html.feed(data)
+        # quick hack to limit excessively compressed messages, limits viewing to first MB of data
+        self.html.feed(data[0:1048576])
         self.html.close()
         self.showPlain()