X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=1 a=aCRlMrwmDrwA:10 a=VphdPIyG4kEA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=zk19hA/YTAL+guUbg/dVXQ==:17 a=eYgTSZDaiaYp8racv3wA:9 a=f9ZEiR-dOmNPrPb0tJqvDand7uMA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 Message-ID: <4B9D1B9C.6000302@monai.ca> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:23:40 -0700 From: Steven Monai User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: incomplete/corrupted setup.exe References: <1268526388.20918.ezmlm@cygwin.com> <20100314163002.GA12172@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <03988E63C1BD48809EA3A27E4D6A3661@phoenix> In-Reply-To: <03988E63C1BD48809EA3A27E4D6A3661@phoenix> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 2010/03/14 10:05 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Here is the proposal: > > Name setup.exe as cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe or similar meaning and continue to > provide setup.exe as the most current cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe (by symlink or > redirect) An additional idea: Serve setup.exe via HTTPS. That would likely defeat all but the most intrusive web-filtering proxies, and would also virtually eliminate problems caused by web caches. The costs would be relatively small: the purchase of an SSL cert, a slight increase in server load, and somebody's one-time effort to set it up. -SM -- -- 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