From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45077 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2016 02:24:47 -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 45063 invoked by uid 89); 27 Sep 2016 02:24:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:c14e236, Hx-languages-length:1544, browser, offers X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:24:45 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id u8R9OLJn042110 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:24:23 -0700 Message-ID: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 03:22:00 -0000 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00344.txt.bz2 Jérôme Bouat wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage. > > The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy > auto-configuration script of IE. --- Actually, it doesn't "rely" on it, it offers to use whatever "IE" is set to instead of a direct-connection, in the belief (I believe), that most users will have IE configure -- if for no other reason, that it is the only browser that will be able to get anything downloaded to their system -- so if direct doesn't work, then IE almost has to be configured to access the internet to download *anything*. > > However, when a package is downloaded, it seems it is stored twice : one > time into the IE disk cache and one other time into the cygwin packages > disk cache. ---- ??? 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, it just copies the settings so it can use the same settings. If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything to your system? If you need a special proxy, wouldn't you have configured IE with the special proxy so it can download anything else? > Is there a way to make setup.exe understand the auto-configuration > script without any web browser ? --- As far as I know, it does. What makes you think it is using IE's cache? You might configure IE to empty its cache when it exits, that way you won't see any false positives. -l -- 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