Re: [Pan-users] Anyone using a news server that speaks xzver?

[walt]

On 12/23/2012 11:14 PM, Duncan wrote:
> walt posted on Sun, 23 Dec 2012 15:16:42 -0800 as excerpted:
>
> > I'm testing Heinrich's new support for xzver (header compression) but I
> > have only one server that supports it, and downloading headers from it
> > using xzver is painfully slow.  I have no way of knowing if the long
> > delays are caused by my server or by pan.  Anyone else tried it yet?
>
> gmane seems entirely broken with the new code.  I can post, but fetching
> overviews for subscribed groups simply results in a 500 What? error
> logged by pan from gmane when it tries the xzver command, and no new
> articles.
>
> I've no idea if that means gmane doesn't support xzver at all and pan is
> trying to use it anyway, or if it does and pan's simply screwing things
> up so gmane hasn't a clue what pan's trying to get it to do.
>
> I reverted back to 6a8de8 (just before the xzver stuff hit), and pan
> pulled down all the overviews I had missed since my last pre-xzver update.

Yes, I'm running the same version because at this early stage pan seems to
ignore the "use header compression" checkbox in the preferences editor, which
means pan still uses xzver even if I "turn it off".

gmane responds 'xover' when given the 'help' command, but not 'xzver'.
My one for-pay server lists both xover and xzver as acceptable commands,
so I assume than gmane does not speak xzver.