Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:47:28 -0700:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:45 +0000, Bruce Bowler wrote: >> I have access to a server that is under development and doesn't >> implement the entire nntp protocol yet. >> >> When I connect to this server with pan and ask pan to "get all headers" >> it doesn't get them all. When I connect with seamonkey and ask >> seamonkey to get all headers, it does. >> >> I'd like to be able to give the developers of this new server a >> direction in which to look to be able to support pan fully. >> >> I'm sure someone knows what pan and SM do differently and would love to >> know what that difference is. > > A very useful tool when developing network clients and servers is > Wireshark. Wireshark can record and display network traffic so that you > can see Pan connect, see the NNTP server respond, see all the commands > sent and all the data received. It's also worth noting, I don't believe new-pan (0.90+) has it, but old- pan (0.14.x) did, from the command line you can/could enter a number of debugging options. Run old-pan with the appropriate options from a terminal window (or redirect STDOUT/STDERR to a file, if desired) and it'll spit out logging info for whatever area you told it to. I never used the network debugging functionality, but it was there. As it happens, I still have both installed here, so I can pull it up to answer questions with if necessary. Here's the --help output, you'd probably want --debug-sockets : Pan 0.14.2.91 --version Prints Pan's version number --help Prints this message and exits --debug Turns on the most commonly-used options for a bug report --mute Debugging tool to send new posts to console, not the server --debug-cache Print debugging messages for the article cache --debug-sockets Print debugging messages when talking to the news server --debug-queue Print debugging messages related to managing tasks --debug-decode Print debugging messages related to decoding attachments --debug-newsrc Print debugging messages related to .newsrc files --debug-gnksa Print debugging messages related to gnksa correctness --debug-trace Print debugging messages when entering/leaving functions --debug-lock Print debugging messages related to threaded gui locks --debug-object Print debugging messages related to refcounted objects (NB: I'm sure glad gmane got whatever bug it was stopping people from being able to post to the list thru them worked out. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
