X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EXECUTABLE_URI,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B697009.6030806@gmail.com> References: <483675.22644.qm@web25502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <4B685C0B.4020600@cygwin.com> <4B697009.6030806@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0100 Message-ID: <9948385e1002070638g85ddd09lb9c38cfcf211a3bb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/ From: =?UTF-8?Q?David_Bala=C5=BEic?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 3 February 2010 13:46, Dave Korn wrote: > On 03/02/2010 08:16, Morten Kj=E6rulff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried downloading http://www.cygwin.com//setup.exe (note 2 //), and >> got 2.680. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe is still 2.674 for me. > > =A0You found a clever way to trick the caching proxy that's messing thing= s up > for you! > > =A0Another thing that often works is to use a public open-proxy server to > redirect the request for you; it only takes seconds to google a few up. Another simple trick that usually works is to append ?some-random-stuff to the url, like: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe&go_away_proxy! Regards, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple