Re: [Pan-users] Latest compressed headers fix

[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 binary stream itself?  As 
long as you know you're downloading the overview file only (yenc is 
pretty close to binary, so if you're downloading yenced attachments at 
the same time...), if the raw ncat results in a string of binary 
gibberish, not the normal text of nntp, you know it's getting /something/ 
binary.  And if that /something/ results in a bunch of new message 
overviews/headers reconstructed correctly within pan, then you know it 
must have been the compressed overview file (aka headers).

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