[ale] Totally OT

[taliesin at babcom.com (Glenn Stone)]

> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:40:48AM -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
>> Forced to use IE for a few days, I noticed something interesting:
>> If you have your "home page" set to about:blank, then open Explorer,
>> and pull down the Address list in order to select a URL which you have
>> visited recently, but don't click on any URL, there is some data transferred
>> over the net.

Set up a Linux box on the same net, and as root do

tcpdump host windowsmachine

This will at least get the headers..... do man tcpcdump for more interesting
bits.... 

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