From: David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org>
On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote:
> What makes you think it is downloaded into the IE disk cache?
> I don't think it should be -- as AFAIK, it doesn't use IE to download
> anything
setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me
thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't use a
HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web traffic
onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap way to add
HTTPS support to setup?
Dave.
[1] Such as https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/
(which has a HTTP equivalent, I know...)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 19:47 Jérôme Bouat
2016-09-27 2:17 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-27 3:22 ` Linda Walsh
2016-09-27 18:48 ` David Stacey [this message]
2016-09-28 1:00 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-30 19:41 ` Jérôme Bouat
2016-10-01 13:30 ` Andrey Repin
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