[Pan-users] Re: 0.100 - Error on downloading binaries

[Duncan]

"Mike Houwers" <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted
below, on  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:18:36 -0400:

> With the minor changes, 0.100 compiles and starts fine under Windows 2000. 
> Text articles download fine.<br>However, when I try to download a binary, the 
> event log fills up with:<br><br>Wed Jun 21 21:13:20 2006 - Making a new 
> connection to &lt;&lt;my-news-server&gt;&gt;
> <br>Wed Jun 21 21:13:20 2006 - Error reading from socket: Invalid byte 
> sequence in conversion input<br><br>And the download never 
> progresses.<br><br>I can see where this gets reported in the code, but not 
> much more than that.
> <br><br>Can anyone else replicate this? I'd be glad to help troubleshoot in 
> any way I can.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>mike houwers<br><br>

I can't answer your question as I haven't spent any time lately on
binares, but just a short note to request... PLEASE turn off the HTML!

There's a reason PAN chooses not to do HTML, as many consider it a
security issue and the playground of spammers, crackers, and AOLer/newbies
that neither know nor care about security issues, their own or that of
others.  Whether you choose to post in HTML in general is your business,
but please honor PAN's no HTML choice at least when posting to the PAN
lists (which many of us read as groups thru gmane, using PAN).



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Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
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