Re: NCat tunnel tuncating data?

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:55:02AM +0100, Peter Holroyde wrote:
> Hi guys, i'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me...
>
> I'm using ncat to tunnel a port through to a webservice on a machine using
> the command:
>
> ncat -l 1444 -c "ncat xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1444 -o log.txt"
>
> this works great until i try to post a large request down the tunnel, at
> which point the log file suddenly stops after 512 characters (and the
> request never completes)
>
> is this a limit in ncat does anybody know? or just a limit to the amount of
> data logged?
>
> the responses are certainly bigger than 512 and come through with no
> problems

Does it happen only when logging with -o, or always?

David Fifield
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