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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:58:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Question on cygwin Mirrors
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, dAniel hAhler wrote:

> Hello cygwin-list,
>
> on Mon, 16. Feb 2004 at 09:24:32 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> C> The mirrors are checked twice a day to ensure that they are synced
> C> with the master. If they aren't they aren't, they are not included
> C> in the mirrors list.
>
> Great.
> btw: is there something like sending "If-Modified-Since" and getting a
> 304-Reply planned/possible when fetching the zipped setup.ini?
> It's quite annoying if you just received it on a slow dialup and have
> to do it some minutes later again, because you had to cancel setup
> download for some reason.
>
> I think this could also save bandwidth on the mirrors and would be
> even useful for the mirror.lst.

Planned -- no.  Possible -- perhaps.  PTC.
See <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> for instructions on
getting setup sources.
FWIW, if you use IE5 settings, IE may cache the file for you (I've
actually been bitten by this a few times).
	Igor
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