From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91341 invoked by alias); 28 Sep 2016 00:06:00 -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 91327 invoked by uid 89); 28 Sep 2016 00:05:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:64.59.136.137, Hx-spam-relays-external:64.59.136.137, Hx-spam-relays-external:!192.168.1.100!, H*RU:!192.168.1.100! X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:05:49 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([174.0.238.184]) by shaw.ca with SMTP id p2NfbpwPVMSApp2NgbxzMV; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:05:48 -0600 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=A9QuBOeG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:117 a=WqCeCkldcEjBO3QZneQsCg==:17 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=CjdR9PTYAAAA:8 a=CCpqsmhAAAAA:8 a=w5aJ8kaLLAry8Qfnm_kA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=eOkOE3MIqR7oZcG_Dlw-:22 a=ul9cdbp4aOFLsgKbc677:22 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ? References: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Brian Inglis Message-ID: <5070c0e0-0c4a-8359-d888-d5e72d89f698@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 01:00:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfFB+wXR0LIXkWkwY03xLUwu4f/6b/KFDtoARmriVkXMeCCQG4Z8h3qfBVamz+QeluMMGyn+HpRdbct/hcnYr/F+tG18XbreH9IkNVVqr/jwekiAOgl3v OPPTgOZXQ1jPb7FXjNCoHezE4DUoeTVCjjsP2tQXQ7KZ2+wADoApo1tlwSS/uWPyXQRoO+3zAHboMw== X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00371.txt.bz2 On 2016-09-27 12:29, David Stacey wrote: > 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? > [1] Such as > https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ (which has > a HTTP equivalent, I know...) Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing using libcurl rather than dealing with IE over COM or whatever the Win10 version is. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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