200K is a lot to send for a simple message. Even things like cookies wouldn't account for that; that'd be one hell of a whopping cookie file.
No, not just the FTM portion... i meant the
entire ~/Library/Cookies/
Cookie.plistI keep mine trim, and it's 140K (at the moment). I bet mine is small compared to folks who never trim theirs:
ls -lh ~/Library/Cookies
-rw-r--r--@ 1 halito halito 136K Mar 4 14:31 Cookies.plist
HTTP POST sends a fair amount of overhead, and I would assume that would account for some of the information. The specific data that UBB.threads sends include:
- Date
- Time
- Board name
- Board number
- Post thread ID number
- Post parent ID number
- MD5 hash of the post, presumably to make sure it was sent correctly
- Post body, Unicode encoded
- Subject
- Icon ID
- Codes for the checkboxes (watched topics and so on)
- Encoded URL of the redirect page after the post is made
- Option value for the Markup popup
All that shouldn't amount to nearly 200K of data; in fact, I'd be surprised if it doubled the size of the text body itself.
Okay thanks. As indicated, this forum seems (relatively) reasonable.
That macosxhints test i did had exactly "
test test test" in the message. (their config refuses posts with less than 10 chars). When i deleted that tiny message, i saw a lot of data going out (almost like when i email a photo, or upload a file).