At 02:49 PM 5/4/2004, Vivek Khera wrote:
On May 4, 2004, at 3:42 PM, Pete McNeil wrote:
Every rulebase is potentially a different size & composition, plus sizes typically change with each update. I'm glad to hear all the positive reports on this. :-)
Forgive me... What is the URL for the zipped version of the file...
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Actually - the URL is the same. The file will be compressed with gzip if your browser (or wget, etc...) notifies the server that it can accept that type of compression.
This requires a little bit of extra scripting and that you download gzip.
This hasn't made it to the archive yet but I think the following message snippet will help you get started:
> > This can be done with wget, for example, but setting this up appears > > to be technically complex - so I'm going to leave it at that for > > now. (Requires the --header switch and piping the output through > > gzip) > >It is not so complex: > >In the wget command change > -O sniffer.new >to > -O sniffer.new.gz >and add the switch > --header=Accept-Encoding:gzip > >And in the next line put the command > gzip -d -f sniffer.new.gz
That looks about right. Of course you will also need to download gzip to make this work if you don't already have it.
http://www.gzip.org/
_M
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