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Subject: RE: IE5 settings in setup.exe
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:27:31 +0200
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From: "Morche Matthias" <Matthias DOT Morche AT P7S1Produktion DOT de>
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Did You consider using a proxy of Your own eg Proxomitron that is able to manipulate the user-agent?

cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com wrote:
> 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?
...

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