From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "Jérôme Bouat" <jerome.bouat@laposte.net>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 13:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89476434.20161001115301@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03c3eef6-61e9-e876-41ff-8be1fa77bb80@laposte.net>
Greetings, Jérôme Bouat!
>> If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything
>> to your system?
> My organisation forbids the use of IE. The corporate web browser is Firefox.
Doesn't change the fact proxy settings are available in control panel.
>> What makes you think it is using
>> IE's cache?
> I just performed this simple test :
> 1. clear the IE disk cache
> 2. use Setup.exe in order to update cygwin through the "IE proxy settings"
> 3. look at the temporary Internet files and the cygwin downloaded packages directory
> You will see your "tar.xz" packages in both files trees.
Then your system does something nasty.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Saturday, October 1, 2016 11:52:02
Sorry for my terrible english...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-01 9:05 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
2016-09-28 1:00 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-30 19:41 ` Jérôme Bouat
2016-10-01 13:30 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
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