Re: Mirror announcement

Re: Mirror announcement

[Jon Turney]

On 26/03/2024 04:59, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi, I have a Cygwin mirror available at: Contact: i@cicku.me Mirror URL: 
> https://mirrors.cicku.me/cygwin Please consider this as an official 
> request to add to the mirror list. Thank you!

Thanks for providing a mirror.

Can you give the approximate geographical location in a similar format 
to our existing list [1]?

[1] https://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

Re: Mirror announcement

[Jon Turney]

On 26/03/2024 14:10, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi, This mirror is actually behind CDN which is "global", so I'm not 
> sure if you can handle such of mirror on your end for redirect.

OK, I'll leave the location unspecified.

I gave it a brief test with our setup program and things seem to work 
correctly (which shouldn't be surprising since it just uses the wininet
API to fetch files).

However, it seem our mirror checking script seems to get told "403 
Forbidden" when it tries to check if you are up to date.

Can you tell me (privately, if you like) what User-Agent: it should 
present? Or suggest another mechanism to allow it access?

Re: Mirror announcement

[Christopher Meng]

Hi,

UA could be something unique similar to “Cygwin mirror/0.01” and I can whitelist then, but having “python-urlli will definitely trigger the WAF.

While I can completely disable the check without issues, if you want to carry a specific UA feel free to do it and I will then white list based on UA.

Let me know when you are ready.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 26, 2024, at 1:40 PM, Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 26/03/2024 14:10, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hi, This mirror is actually behind CDN which is "global", so I'm not sure if you can handle such of mirror on your end for redirect.
> 
> OK, I'll leave the location unspecified.
> 
> I gave it a brief test with our setup program and things seem to work correctly (which shouldn't be surprising since it just uses the wininet
> API to fetch files).
> 
> However, it seem our mirror checking script seems to get told "403 Forbidden" when it tries to check if you are up to date.
> 
> Can you tell me (privately, if you like) what User-Agent: it should present? Or suggest another mechanism to allow it access?
> 

Re: Mirror announcement

[Kaz Kylheku]

On 2024-03-25 21:59, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
> Hi, I have a Cygwin mirror available at: Contact: i@cicku.me Mirror URL: https://mirrors.cicku.me/cygwin Please consider this as an official request to add to the mirror list. Thank you!

You know, there are lots of mirrors of Cygwin where you can get the latest.

It might be worth somehow helping out the Cygwin Time Machine project: the one thing that helps support Cygwin installations that cannot just be following whatever is current.

http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html

The site can't even be accessed via HTTPS, only HTTP. It seems very likely that this is provided by one individual.

Re: Mirror announcement

[Christopher Meng]

My mirror has 140TB of space so I can mirror anything as long as there is a valid request, and the project has enough usage (traffic).

My mirror also support HTTP, I just do not announce it by default because HTTP is insecure.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 26, 2024, at 3:05 PM, Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2024-03-25 21:59, Christopher Meng via Cygwin wrote:
>> Hi, I have a Cygwin mirror available at: Contact: i@cicku.me Mirror URL: https://mirrors.cicku.me/cygwin Please consider this as an official request to add to the mirror list. Thank you!
> 
> You know, there are lots of mirrors of Cygwin where you can get the latest.
> 
> It might be worth somehow helping out the Cygwin Time Machine project: the one thing that helps support Cygwin installations that cannot just be following whatever is current.
> 
> http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
> 
> The site can't even be accessed via HTTPS, only HTTP. It seems very likely that this is provided by one individual.
>