X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=J+/v9qa6w5CxhAWC iiNy5KmEE5g+btb81P/WtEFfbxLiCE7MyqdfFr4sJYWgRehKd2IVVHrnCUsZL7hb iD89AlG5QZzpVW0rh8RCrjN/7E4GWkK8RMdylkv+G7MBoGFhuIJ26PEcTmMYfCMz FGH+7jRZa9bsb/u8CiqmAGndF2k= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=nczB7appWOMs3N7xhnhlxi +Nqss=; b=jg/I6z9H2Fos2B5Q1c7woip7eFEjiuWZsUtokGkyF0xbAJWCkdMUvc 1gCOReE224VA35FW/vDCyqH44DYBe/Qo7IBSDz4iz7kyIddDhqnPCtw6VP2NBSSa ytxMQuJoVt/tgBPhomKF6hTqJ1a62/qvd6mve1qs+fpJRYIfh63ow= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=crazy, Hx-languages-length:609 X-HELO: smtp.laposte.net Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> <5070c0e0-0c4a-8359-d888-d5e72d89f698@SystematicSw.ab.ca> From: =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgQm91YXQ=?= Message-ID: <801deadc-9ac1-7e02-ca61-efedd17641ae@laposte.net> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:41:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5070c0e0-0c4a-8359-d888-d5e72d89f698@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VR-SrcIP: 88.164.118.110 X-VR-FullState: 0 X-VR-Score: 0 X-VR-Cause-1: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrfeelvddrvddugddugeefucetufdoteggodetrfdotffvucfrrhho X-VR-Cause-2: fhhilhgvmecunfetrffquffvgfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecuhedttdenucenucfjughrpefuvfhfhffk X-VR-Cause-3: ffgfgggjtgfgsehtjeertddtfeejnecuhfhrohhmpeflrohrlphmvgcuuehouhgrthcuoehjvghrohhm X-VR-Cause-4: vgdrsghouhgrtheslhgrphhoshhtvgdrnhgvtheqnecukfhppeekkedrudeigedruddukedruddutden X-VR-Cause-5: ucfrrghrrghmpehmohguvgepshhmthhpohhuthdphhgvlhhopegludelvddrudeikedrtddruddtngdp X-VR-Cause-6: ihhnvghtpeekkedrudeigedruddukedruddutddpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpehjvghrohhmvgdrsghouhgr X-VR-Cause-7: theslhgrphhoshhtvgdrnhgvthdprhgtphhtthhopegthihgfihinhestgihghifihhnrdgtohhm X-VR-AvState: No X-VR-State: 0 X-VR-State: 0 X-IsSubscribed: yes >> thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't >> use a HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web >> traffic onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap >> way to add HTTPS support to setup? > > Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing using libcurl > rather than dealing with IE over COM or whatever the Win10 version is. Maybe a liburl implementation of http(s)/ftp(s) protocols will make Setup.exe smarter : just give the proxy auto-configuration URL as argument :) -- 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