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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Soh Kok Hong cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't get list of download sites In-Reply-To: <4035EA8D.4090505@post1.com> Message-ID: References: <4035EA8D.4090505@post1.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Soh Kok Hong wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having problem with running setup.exe because it says > "Can't get the list of download sites.". This is what I've found so far: > > 1. I can use my mozilla browser to access > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst > > 2. Performed a packet trace on setup.exe and found the following HTTP > transaction by setup.exe: > > GET /cygwin/mirrors.lst HTTP/1.0\r\n > Host: sources.redhat.com\r\n > \r\n > > and remote site reset the TCP link. > > 3. I ran "telnet sources.redhat.com 80" and executed the above > instructions and it failed as expected > > 4. I then tried the telnet again with the following instructions: > > GET /cygwin/mirrors.lst HTTP/1.0\r\n > Host: sources.redhat.com\r\n > User-Agent: cygwin > \r\n > > And it works! > > P.S. I do not use a web proxy and I don't think my ISP uses a > transparent proxy. Make sure you didn't install and run any firewall software. Also, try the "Use IE5 Settings" connection mode in setup. > I suggest that the setup.exe program be fixed so that the download can work. Feel free to check out the sources (for instructions see ) and send in a patch. . Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/