Re: Snort 1.8.1 released!

[Mike Baptiste <mike () baptistefamily net>]

Mozilla will auto uncompress files for you if given the proper MIME 
type.  However, I believe if you right click the file and manually 
select 'Save Link As' it wont do the uncompression.

My guess is the MIME types being ent from teh snort site and the Gnome 
site are different - thus Mozilla acts differently.

But like a previous poster said - use lynx :)  I use Mozilla as my main 
brower, but when I'm downloading stuff to my servers, I simply right 
click the link, select 'Copy location' go to an xterm and type lynx 
(past URL here)

Of course I have to do this since I don't have X or Mozilla installed on 
my servers :)

Mike

John Sage wrote:
> 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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