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On 2016-09-27 12:29, David Stacey wrote:
> On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> 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
> setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me
> thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't
> use a HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web
> traffic onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap
> way to add HTTPS support to setup?
> [1] Such as
> https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ (which has
> a HTTP equivalent, I know...)

Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing using libcurl
rather than dealing with IE over COM or whatever the Win10 version is.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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