From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10648 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2016 18:29:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10633 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2016 18:29:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:57E9D85, H*f:sk:57E9D85, H*i:sk:57E9D85, H*Ad:D*co.uk X-HELO: smtp-out-6.tiscali.co.uk Received: from smtp-out-6.tiscali.co.uk (HELO smtp-out-6.tiscali.co.uk) (62.24.135.134) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:29:26 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.5] ([79.68.221.52]) by smtp.talktalk.net with SMTP id ox82bUxwZ3OBfox87bfXYt; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:29:23 +0100 Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> From: David Stacey Message-ID: <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:48:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfNtj28rFYSFssoyvU7hBeFPrCA2slizCSfXczriX4PUXeh1GsHxcEviytexnNB0zz49LZY95bH3bugQ9PYbT1OVNhNXE5Cf3z6//2TWNXZepPh3Z3qpH 6+A0AYyupOGpX78b669swUcMp8c3nlsGL4fE4DMG/zXqUXP/yVcOHAt3 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00364.txt.bz2 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...) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple