Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-24 Thread walt
On 01/23/2013 07:28 PM, Chris Gentle wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, walt > 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

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-24 Thread Duncan
Heinrich Müller posted on Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:01:53 +0100 as excerpted: > xzver uses plain old nntp, so you would get a compressed binary stream, > as with gzip. The only indication whether or not it worked would be > hidden in the response code Shouldn't another indication be the compressed bin

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-24 Thread Heinrich Müller
Am 24.01.2013 04:28, schrieb Chris Gentle: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, walt > 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 ins

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Gentle
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > (Please kill the html, at least for pan's list.) Sorry about that. Didn't realize Gmail was doing that . > Could you either switch ssl off temporarily as a test, or if your groups > are too sensitive or your ISP too nasty f

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-23 Thread Duncan
Chris Gentle posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2013 21:28:32 -0600 as excerpted: > 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 fee

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Gentle
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:53 PM, walt 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 pack

Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-21 Thread walt
On 01/21/2013 03:58 PM, Chris Gentle wrote: > I finally got around to testing the latest compressed headers fixes > and it seems to work with Supernews. It connects and retrieves > headers anyway. Not sure how to verify that the headers are actually > compressed. Maybe some visual feedback in

[Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Gentle
I finally got around to testing the latest compressed headers fixes and it seems to work with Supernews. It connects and retrieves headers anyway. Not sure how to verify that the headers are actually compressed. Maybe some visual feedback in the task manager that the headers are being compressed?