Re: Snort 1.8.1 released!

[Phil Wood <cpw () lanl gov>]

My apache config file has some cruft like so:

<IfModule mod_mime.c>

    #
    # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers (Mosaic/X 2.1+) uncompress
    # information on the fly. Note: Not all browsers support this.
    # Despite the name similarity, the following Add* directives have nothing
    # to do with the FancyIndexing customization directives above.
    #
    #AddEncoding x-compress Z
    #AddEncoding x-gzip gz tgz

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:57:59AM -0400, Mike Baptiste wrote:
> 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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