diff --git a/hbc b/hbc
index 1f8038b..cd3eba5 100755
--- a/hbc
+++ b/hbc
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ daemon.get_maximum_file_descriptors = get_maximum_file_descriptors
 PORT = 50003
 INTERVAL = 10
 PIDFILE = '/tmp/hbc.pid'
-VER = 1
+VER = 2
 MAXRECV = 32767
 
 running = True
diff --git a/hbd b/hbd
index 7d417fb..66e8f81 100755
--- a/hbd
+++ b/hbd
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import cPickle
 import smtplib
 import traceback
 import urllib
+import urlparse
 import httplib
 import threading
 import Queue
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ def log(host, m, service=None):
 		hst = "%s " % host
 	else:
 		hst = ""
-	
+
 	msg = "%s: %s%s%s\n" % (ts, hst, srv, m)
 	msgs.append(msg)
 	if logfmt == "msg":
@@ -364,7 +365,7 @@ def readsock(sock):
 		msg = oldmtodict(data)
 	else:
 		oldclient = False
-	if verbose: print "readsock = %s, %s" % (msg,addrp)
+	if DEBUG > 2: print "readsock = %s, %s" % (msg,addrp)
 
 	addr = addrp[0:2]
 	name = shortname(msg.get('name', "unknown"))
@@ -440,7 +441,7 @@ def readsock(sock):
 	else:
 		opkt = dicttos('ACK', rmsg)
 	ss=sock.sendto(opkt, addr)
-	if verbose: print "sendto1: %s (%s) %s %s" % (addr, len(opkt), op, str(rmsg)[:50])
+	if DEBUG > 2: print "sendto1: %s (%s) %s %s" % (addr, len(opkt), op, str(rmsg)[:50])
 
 	# send any commands we have queued
 	while len(host.cmds):
@@ -467,7 +468,7 @@ def readsock(sock):
 		except Exception as e:
 			print "opkt len is %s" % len(opkt)
 			print "cannot send: %s" % e
-			
+
 		if verbose: print "sendto2: %s (%s) %s %s" % (addr, len(opkt), op, str(rmsg)[:50])
 		if DEBUG > 2: print "msg from %s,%s, sent %s bytes back" % (addr[0], addr[1], ss)
 
@@ -503,20 +504,18 @@ class HttpHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
 
 
 	def do_HEAD(self):
-		self.setheaders()
+		self.setheaders(200)
 
 
-	def setheaders(self, headerdict=None):
-		if not headerdict:
-			headerdict =  {"Content-Type": "text/html; charset = ISO-8859-1" }
-		self.send_response(200)
+	def setheaders(self, code,  headerdict):
+		self.send_response(code)
 		self.send_header("Last-Modified", time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT", time.gmtime(now)))
 #		self.send_header("Accept-Ranges","bytes")
 #		self.send_header("Connection","close")
 		for h in headerdict:
 			self.send_header(h, headerdict[h])
 		self.end_headers()
-	
+
 
 	def buildhead(self, title="Heartbeat", refresh=None, extras=None):
 		res=[]
@@ -556,141 +555,107 @@ class HttpHandler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
 		res.append('<hr>')
 		res.append('<address>hbd (Unix) Server at %s:%s</address>' % (hbd_host, hbd_port))
 		res.append('</body></html>')
-		return res
-	
+		return code, res
+
 
 	def do_GET(self):
 		global sig
-		xsig = 0
-		headers=[]
-		headerdict = None
-		if DEBUG > 2: sys.stderr.write("handle\n")
-		uri = self.path
-		upar=string.split(uri,"?")
-		if len(upar) == 1:
-			uarg=[]
-		else:
-			uarg=string.split(upar[1],"&")
-
-		if DEBUG > 2: sys.stderr.write("handle = %s\n" % (uri))
 		code = 200
-		cause = "OK"
-		if uri == "/":
+		xsig = 0
+		rqAcceptEncoding =  self.headers.getheader('Accept-encoding',None)
+		headerdict =  {"Content-Type": "text/html; charset = ISO-8859-1" }
+		if DEBUG > 2: sys.stderr.write("handle\n")
+		qr = urlparse.urlparse(self.path)
+		qa = urlparse.parse_qs(qr.query)
+
+		if DEBUG > 2: sys.stderr.write("handle = %s\n" % (qr.geturl()))
+		if qr.path == "/":
 			res=self.buildpage()
 
-		elif upar[0] == "/c":	# command on host /c?h=melschserver&c=sudo%20ls 
-			uname=""
-			ucmd=""
-			if len(uarg) != 2 or len(uarg[0]) < 3 or len(uarg[1]) < 3:
-				code=400
-				cause='Argument error'
-				res=self.builderror(code, cause, "need h= and c= arguments")
-			else:
-				if uarg[0][:2] == "h=":
-					uname=uarg[0][2:]
-				if uarg[1][:2] == "c=":
-					ucmd=uarg[1][2:]
-				if ucmd != "" and uname != "" and Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
-					rmsg = {'cmd': urllib.unquote(ucmd)}
-					Host.hosts[uname].cmds.append(('CMD', rmsg))
-					res=self.buildhead()
-					res.append("2Done")
-				else:
-					code=400
-					cause='arg 2 error'
-					res=self.builderror(code, cause, "ucmd %s uname %s" % (ucmd, uname))
-
-		elif upar[0] == "/d":	# drop host  /d?h=melschserver
-			if len(uarg) != 1 or len(uarg[0]) < 3:
-				code=400
-				cause='Argument error'
-				res=self.builderror(code, cause, "need h= argument")	
-			else:
-				if uarg[0][:2] == "h=":
-					uname=uarg[0][2:]
-				if uname != "" and Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
-					log(uname, "dropped")
-					del Host.hosts[uname]
-					res=self.buildhead()
-					res.append("Done")
-	
-		elif upar[0] == "/n":   # register name
-			if len(uarg) != 1 or len(uarg[0]) < 3:
-				code=400
-				cause='Argument error'
-				res=self.builderror(code, cause, "need h= argument")	
+		elif qr.path == "/c":	# command on host /c?h=melschserver&c=sudo%20ls
+			uname=qa.get('h',[None])[0]
+			ucmd=qa.get('c', [None])[0]
+			if not ucmd or not uname:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Argument error', "need h= and c= arguments")
+			elif not Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Data error', "h=%s not found" % uname)
 			else:
+				Host.hosts[uname].cmds.append(('CMD', {'cmd': urllib.unquote(ucmd)}))
 				res=self.buildhead()
-				if uarg[0][:2] == "h=":
-					uname=uarg[0][2:]
-				if uname != "" and Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
-					ll = Host.hosts[uname].registerDns()
-				else:
-					ll="name %s not found" % uname
+				res.append("cmd %s queued for host %s" % (uname, ucmd))
+
+		elif qr.path == "/d":	# drop host  /d?h=melschserver
+			uname=qa.get('h',[None])[0]
+			if not uname:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Argument error', "need h= argument")
+			if not uname in Host.hosts:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Data error', "h=%s not found" % uname)
+			else:
+				log(uname, "dropped")
+				del Host.hosts[uname]
+				res=self.buildhead()
+				res.append("Done")
+
+		elif qr.path == "/n":   # register name
+			uname=qa.get('h',[None])[0]
+			if not uname:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Argument error', "need h= argument")
+			if not uname in Host.hosts:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Data error', "h=%s not found" % uname)
+			else:
+				ll = Host.hosts[uname].registerDns()
 				res.append(ll)
 				log(uname, ll)
 
-		elif upar[0] == "/u":   # update
-			uname=""
-			ucode=""
-			if len(uarg) != 2 or len(uarg[0]) < 3 or len(uarg[1]) < 3:
-				code=400
-				cause='Argument error'
-				res=self.builderror(code, cause, "need h= and c= arguments")
+		elif qr.path == "/u":   # update
+			uname=qa.get('h',[None])[0]
+			ucode=qa.get('c', [None])[0]
+			if not ucode or not uname:
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Argument error', "need h= and c= arguments")
+			elif not  Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
+				code, res=self.builderror(400, 'Data error', "h=%s not found" % uname)
 			else:
-				if uarg[0][:2] == "h=":
-					uname=uarg[0][2:]
-				if uarg[1][:2] == "c=":
-					ucode=uarg[1][2:]
-				if ucode != "" and uname != "" and Host.hosts.has_key(uname):
-					err = updatecode(ucode, urllib.unquote(uname))
-					res=self.buildhead()
-					res.append("3 Done: %s" % err if err else "OK")
-				else:
-					code=400
-					cause='Argument error'
-					res=self.builderror(code, cause, "host not found")
+				err = updatecode(ucode, urllib.unquote(uname))
+				res=self.buildhead()
+				res.append("3 Done: %s" % err if err else "OK")
 
-
-
-		elif upar[0] == "/api/0/hosts":   # api access to host table
+		elif qr.path == "/api/0/hosts":   # api access to host table
 			headerdict = {"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8" }
 			l=[]
 			for h in Host.hosts:
 				l.append(Host.hosts[h].jsons())
-			res=["[",",".join(l),"]"]
-		elif upar[0] == "/api/0/messages":   # api access to host table
+			res=["["+",".join(l)+"]"]
+
+		elif qr.path == "/api/0/messages":   # api access to host table
 			headerdict = {"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8" }
 			l=msgs[len(msgs)-30:]
 			res=[json.dumps(l)]
-		elif upar[0] == "/r":   # restart
+
+		elif qr.path == "/r":   # restart
 			res=self.buildhead()
 			res.append("restart request")
 			xsig=signal.SIGHUP
 			log(None, "restart request")
 
 		else:
-			code=404
-			cause="Not Found"
-			res=self.builderror(code, cause, "The requested URL was not found on this server.")
+			code, res=self.builderror(404, "Not Found", "requested URL was not found on this server.")
 
 
-		tosend = []
-		for h in headers:
-			tosend.append("%s\r" % h)
-		tosend.append("\r")
-#		self.request.send("HTTP/1.0 %s %s\r\n" % (code, cause))
-#		for h in headers:
-#			self.request.send("%s\r\n" % h)
-#		self.request.send("\r\n")
-
-		self.setheaders(headerdict)
-		tosend += res
-		self.wfile.write(string.join(tosend, "\n"))
+		if 'deflate' in rqAcceptEncoding:
+			headerdict['Content-Encoding'] = "deflate"
+			towrite = zlib.compress(string.join(res, "\n"), 6)
+		else:
+			towrite = string.join(res, "\n")
+		headerdict['Content-Length'] = len(towrite)
+		headerdict['Cache-Control'] = 'private, must-revalidate, max-age=0'
+		headerdict['Expires'] = 'Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT'
+		self.setheaders(code, headerdict)
+		self.wfile.write(towrite)
 
 		if xsig:
 			sig = xsig
 
+
 def setrunning(new):
 	global running
 	if DEBUG > 0: sys.stderr.write("running is now = %s\n" % (new))
@@ -707,7 +672,7 @@ def closeup():
 		sock6.close()
 	except:
 		pass
-	
+
 	if DEBUG > 0: sys.stderr.write("asking http server to stop\n")
 	try:
 		serv.shutdown()
@@ -994,7 +959,7 @@ while running:
 			sys.stderr.write("what happend just now?\n")
 	if DEBUG > 2: sys.stderr.write("done handling, running is %s, sig is %s\n" % (running, sig))
 
-	# check hour/day/week 
+	# check hour/day/week
 	for v in xrange(3):
 		fm=tsfm[v]
 		ts=time.strftime(tsfm[v], time.localtime(now))
@@ -1002,7 +967,7 @@ while running:
 			lastfm[v]=ts
 			for h in Host.hosts.keys():
 				Host.hosts[h].hdwcounts[v] = [Host.hosts[h].doesack, Host.hosts[h].upcount]
-	
+
 	if now >= next and now >= firstcheck:
 		next = now+1
 		checkoverdue()