From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 77980 invoked by alias); 16 May 2017 14:07:02 -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 77953 invoked by uid 89); 16 May 2017 14:07:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=287832878, 2.878-3,2.878, sk:Cygwin-, combos X-HELO: out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 16 May 2017 14:07:00 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5B94206EB; Tue, 16 May 2017 10:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 16 May 2017 10:07:01 -0400 X-ME-Sender: Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-166-190-52.range86-166.btcentralplus.com [86.166.190.52]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 70F637E98B; Tue, 16 May 2017 10:07:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test References: <129322595.2045958.1494880943500.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <129322595.2045958.1494880943500@mail.yahoo.com> <8c2edd06-ca14-53f2-b08a-e764638ac1dd@SystematicSw.ab.ca> <381d6838-a3a0-fa21-4563-aa879d7ad887@dronecode.org.uk> <3BE560BC-84EF-4C6D-8131-85A652C7B18E@yahoo.com> Cc: Ian Lambert To: The Cygwin Mailing List From: Jon Turney Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:44:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3BE560BC-84EF-4C6D-8131-85A652C7B18E@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2017-05/txt/msg00253.txt.bz2 On 16/05/2017 14:45, Ian Lambert wrote: > On May 16, 2017 6:52:17 AM EDT, Jon Turney <> wrote: >> On 15/05/2017 22:11, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2017-05-15 14:42, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >>>> On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney wrote: >>>> On 15/05/2017 16:29, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: >>>>> On Sun, 5/14/17, Jon Turney wrote: >>>> I think that "403 forbidden" means that this request is prohibited >>>> by the configuration of the proxy, so really you need to contact >>>> whoever administers it. >>>> >>>> The proxy admins have no interest in helping with this. :) >> >> My point was more that your administrator has configured things to >> prevent what you are trying to do (however foolish trying to control >> access by user-agent might be) > >>> Does it work if you try user agent combos of >>> {Cygwin-Setup,CygwinSetup}/{2.878-3,2.878}? >> >> You might also try with no user-agent (wget --user-agent="" apparently) > > When I try --user-agent=anything with setup, it quietly does nothing. I'm not sure if you missed or ignored that the wget option is referred to here. > It isn't an option, like proxy username and password aren't? Correct, it isn't an option. setup --help will confirm this for you. I don't know why unrecognized options aren't fatal errors. Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I may consider changing or removing the user-agent reported by cygwin setup, or providing such an option. -- 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