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On 14/03/2010 16:02, Jason Pyeron wrote:

>> Hey Cygwin folks,
>>
>>      You all have been very patient with me.
>> I guess that I _am_ an idiot, because it turns out that it is 
>> my own university network that is blocking that URL.  The 
> 
> Just curious, what was the metric (reason) they were using to block it?

  I'm curious too, did you look in the corrupted file with notepad?  Was it an
error message of some sort?  And what happens if you try and fetch it with
'wget -S': are there any clues in the server response headers?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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