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: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:12:30 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: Max Bowsher To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Adding/removing custom mirror URLs in setup.exe... In-Reply-To: <20030120091044.GA21587@cygbert.vinschen.de> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: mob22@imap.hermes.cam.ac.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII MB> > > Don't know whether setup understands usernames/passwords. I'll MB> > >dig in the MB> > > source tomorrow, if no one has answered by then. RC> > It should, Corinna IIRC uses ftp w/passwords. CV> No, I don't. OK, well I checked briefly in the source, here's the result: Setup DOES have *some* support for ftp auth, but DOES NOT understand ftp://user:passwd@host/. Instead, it tries to pop up a dialog when anonymous login fails. So: the original poster should try without user:pass@ in the URL. Max. -- 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/