Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:55 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages Message-ID: <20020711091055.C9120@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020711081940.01f7dbe0@pop3.cris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020711081940.01f7dbe0@pop3.cris.com>; from rrschulz@cris.com on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:27:12AM -0700 On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:27:12AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > I've noticed that when I use an FTP mirror to download Cygwin components > and I take too long poring over the list, clicking and selecting and > whatnot, sometimes the FTP server will time out and close the control > connection, and when I finally move on to the download stage, it fails > immediately ("Download incomplete") and I'm forced (well, offered the > option) to start over. I've noticed this behavior too. The work-around I use is to only download from the HTTP mirrors; I've never seen this timeout problem with the HTTP mirror servers I've tried. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/