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Subject: Re: strange downloading problem
From: "William S. Huizinga" <huizingw AT vixen DOT si DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <0ba601c1dcd3$dfeac600$0101a8c0@albion>
References: <1018029590 DOT 4922 DOT 58 DOT camel AT vixen DOT si DOT com> 
	<0ba601c1dcd3$dfeac600$0101a8c0 AT albion>
Date: 05 Apr 2002 14:22:00 -0500
Message-Id: <1018034521.4922.64.camel@vixen.si.com>
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Nope, no joy.


[root AT vixen rts]# declare -x http_proxy=3Dhttp://enterprise.si.com:80
[root AT vixen rts]# declare -x ftp_proxy=3Dhttp://enterprise.si.com:80
[root AT vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws
--proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
--14:07:33--  http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
           =3D> `setup.exe.1'
Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected!
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 357,888 [application/octet-stream]

    0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% @=20
39.53 KB/s
   50K .......... .......... .....                            21% @
384.53 B/s

14:08:42 (1.10 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 77113. Retrying.

-- snip --

[root AT vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws
--proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx --passive-ftp
ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe
--14:13:41--  ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe
           =3D> `setup.exe.3'
Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected!
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/unknown]

    0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... @  46.86
KB/s
   50K .......... .......... ...                              @ 399.44
B/s

14:14:43 (1.19 KB/s) - `setup.exe.3' saved [75466]

[root AT vixen rts]# wget --proxy=3Don --proxy-user=3Dhuizinws
--proxy-passwd=3Dxxxx ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe
--14:16:20--  ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/setup.exe
           =3D> `setup.exe.4'
Connecting to enterprise.si.com:80... connected!
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/unknown]

    0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... @  35.16
KB/s
   50K .......... .......... ...                              @ 398.65
B/s

14:17:23 (1.18 KB/s) - `setup.exe.4' saved [75466]

pftp works no better.

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wsh


On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 13:58, Cliff Hones wrote:
> William S. Huizinga <huizingw AT vixen DOT si DOT com> wrote:
>=20
> > The download got to around 22% and then stopped, only to timeout 300
> > seconds later.  I tried it again, same problem.  I tried on each and
> > every mirror to download setup.exe and got the same result.  Sound like
> > a bandwith problem?  Well, sure, but I downloaded all the tarballs from
> > on of the mirror site and got them all down fully and quickly.  Only
> > setup.exe refuses to download, and all of the mirrors.  I have tried
> > using IE on W2K, Mozilla on Linux, even straight ftp.  All the same.
> >
> > I am behind a firewall, so maybe that has something to do with it.
>=20
> Could well be.
>=20
> > Any notions as to the source of this problem would be appreciated.
>=20
> Three suggestions:
>=20
> 1)  Try a command-line ftp client which can do passive ftp
>     (eg pftp on Linux).
>=20
> 2) Try wget with the cygwin home page URL http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe
>=20
> 3) If your firewall normally does transparent proxying, but does
>    also act as an explicit proxy, try changing your IE proxy settings
>    to use the explicit proxy.
> =20
> -- Cliff
>=20
>=20
>=20


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