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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:27:47 -0400
From: Andrea M <andrea DOT mo AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: IE5 settings in setup.exe
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Cywgin might not require a specific broser, but the proxy server
might. Hence, it might block cygwin if it sends an unauthorized
user-agent. I am not sure whether it can block "programs" per se: if
the user agent string is the same as IE's can the proxy recognize it
comes from cygwin?

On 6/17/05, Sean McMahon <smcmahon AT usgs DOT gov> wrote:
> Isn't there a button on setup.exe where you can specefy a proxy?  I don't know
> what you mean by user agent.  Cygwin doesn't require a specific browser.  I
> usually just use direct connection and that works fine but I'm not going through
> a proxy.  You can just say use IE5 settings also.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea M" <andrea DOT mo AT gmail DOT com>
> To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: IE5 settings in setup.exe
> 
> 
> Any idea how I can make it send an user-agent? Otherwise it won't work. Thanks!
> 
> On 6/17/05, Markus Schönhaber <mks AT schoenhaber DOT de> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2005 17:32 schrieb Andrea M:
> > > I am having problems with the IE5 settings in the setup program (can't
> > > get a list of download sites). Does anybody know what user-agent
> > > cygwin uses?
> >
> > None.
> > This is the request/response from my version of setup getting the server-list:
> >
> > -----snip-----
> >
> > GET http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst HTTP/1.0
> > Host: sources.redhat.com
> >
> > HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> > Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:37:41 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat)
> > Last-Modified: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 21:44:24 GMT
> > ETag: "2384c3-1b75-c5d81e00"
> > Accept-Ranges: bytes
> > Content-Length: 7029
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > Age: 136
> > X-Cache: HIT from Saruman.schoenhaber.de
> > X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from Saruman.schoenhaber.de:3128
> > Proxy-Connection: close
> >
> > # Do not edit - see warning in mirrors.html
> >
> http://www.carfield.com.hk/mirror/sources.redhat.com/cygwin;www.carfield.com.hk;Asia;Hong
> > Kong
> > [...]
> >
> > -----snap-----
> >
> > Regards
> >  mks
> >
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