Re: Snort 1.8.1 released!

[John Sage <jsage () finchhaven com>]

I'm not convinced that it's *just* Mozilla, though...

I've been slowly downloading bit and pieces of Gnome for another 
project, and all of those were downloaded through Mozilla, and all of 
those (that I've tar -xzvf'ed..) are gzipped when they get onto my 
harddrive..

I'm still wondering if it's partly a configuration issue at the new 
snort.sourcefire.com, in combination with Mozilla.

anyway...

- John

Chris Adams wrote:

> On Saturday, August 18, 2001, at 11:21 PM, John Sage wrote:
>
> > Just for the record, although I've responded to several people 
> > off-list, I was downloading snort-1.8.1-RELEASE.tar.gz using the 
> > 20010607 build of Mozilla 0.9.1, which is also what I used when I 
> > downloaded snort 1.8.1-beta4 just a couple weeks ago.
> >
> > So although Mozilla 0.9.1 is reporting a download size of about 
> > 1.2meg, the downloaded file on disk is 3.5meg, and is only tar'ed, and 
> > *not* gzipped...
> >
> > I guess something *somewhere* is "helping"...
>
>
> I've seen this with other browsers as well (e.g. IE, Netscape 4.x). The 
> problem seems to stem from the transfer encoding that HTTP allows (I can 
> configure a webserver to transparently gzip the content and send the 
> compressed data over the network; the browser on the other end 
> uncompresses it transparently and handles it as if it was never 
> compressed) and over generous detection algorithms. Not unlike IE's 
> trick of ignoring mime types in favor of its own auto-detection logic.
>
> Chris



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