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