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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 15:06:56 +0100
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On 16/05/2017 14:45, Ian Lambert wrote:
> On May 16, 2017 6:52:17 AM EDT, Jon Turney <> wrote:
>> On 15/05/2017 22:11, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> On 2017-05-15 14:42, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>  On 15/05/2017 16:29, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 5/14/17, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>> I think that "403 forbidden" means that this request is prohibited
>>>> by the configuration of the proxy, so really you need to contact
>>>> whoever administers it.
>>>>
>>>> The proxy admins have no interest in helping with this. :)
>>
>> My point was more that your administrator has configured things to
>> prevent what you are trying to do (however foolish trying to control
>> access by user-agent might be)
>
>>> Does it work if you try user agent combos of
>>> {Cygwin-Setup,CygwinSetup}/{2.878-3,2.878}?
>>
>> You might also try with no user-agent (wget --user-agent="" apparently)
>
> When I try --user-agent=anything with setup, it quietly does nothing.

I'm not sure if you missed or ignored that the wget option is referred 
to here.

> It isn't an option, like proxy username and password aren't?

Correct, it isn't an option.  setup --help will confirm this for you.

I don't know why unrecognized options aren't fatal errors.

Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I may 
consider changing or removing the user-agent reported by cygwin setup, 
or providing such an option.


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