Path: ...!tr3.iad1.usenetexpress.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr3.eu1.usenetexpress.com!news.uzoreto.com!aioe.org!peer03.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx41.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent Subject: Re: Curiosity Question about header downloads Organization: No; Y2.038Chaos instead! Message-ID: References: <7tjfef1vknnladd83crelqd4h3a38scaar@4ax.com> <8l5iefth8u7r6oja1eeon0dm6u2q1h51n5@4ax.com> <1qokef9haq591nev32ptjrl03l9fpuku35@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Face: 5gSW~"1=jGDo(BXfTrgL2BnC3tUB_\d0u@mP~wA1fvK`z8I[>1jXVVZ!N6ittQ.K<5!i3l> ==jcyAk.[B>kLg8TY{+8%edZ(le:ncPt%s8Pr?]QXNXO]0RC#V_zt|%>=bt>rZ2iCI^-yl7Be(]Ep> OfyI!3Bf|e Lines: 32 X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:59:45 +1200 X-Received-Bytes: 2368 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3134817526 Bytes: 2544 On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:56:59 -0600, james moffat wrote: > I will continue to keep an eye on it, and let you know if there are > any changes or if I find the cause/solution. A couple of other things come to mind. However I suspect these are not likely causes. 1. Agent, with default settings, only supports older versions of SSL/TLS up to TLS1.0. There is an AGENT.INI setting to make Agent also support TLS1.1 and TLS1.2. In the "[Online]" section of AGENT.INI, change the setting "AllowedSSLProtocols" from 0 to 2688. The 'magic' number 2688 is a combination of these values 128 TLS1 client-side 512 TLS1.1 client-side 2048 TLS1.2 client-side 2. Back before Agent 6.0, some users reported slowness when enabling Agent's SSL on Windows Vista. Forté delivered a fix for this in Agent 6.0. It is conceivable that something similar may be happening. -- Kind regards Ralph