On 01/23/2013 07:28 PM, Chris Gentle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com > <mailto:w41ter-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org>> wrote: > > Here's my chance to put in a plug for my favorite network utility: > good old ngrep. You can do amazing stuff with ngrep if you want, > but I normally just use it as an instant cli packet sniffer by > typing 'ngrep' (as root) and then watch the packets whiz by on my > terminal. > > > I took a peek with ngrep and also with wireshark but it's still not > obvious whether compression is actually being used. My connection to > supernews is SSL enabled so all I see is nntps traffic. That's why > some visual feedback would be helpful. I believe that it IS using > compression but I can't prove it.
Ah, I omitted that I disable any encryption *before* using ngrep to view my server's reply. Any form of encryption will render any network traffic completely un-parsable by ngrep or any other packet- sniffer. Any completely unencrypted/uncompressed nntp traffic should be visible with ngrep as ordinary human-readable text. Try ngrep while surfing your usual non-ssl websites with any browser and you will see the human-readable text whiz by on your terminal. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
