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Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 15:38:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/
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On 3 February 2010 13:46, Dave Korn <dave DOT korn DOT cygwin AT googlemail DOT com> wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 08:16, Morten Kj=E6rulff wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried downloading http://www.cygwin.com//setup.exe (note 2 //), and
>> got 2.680. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe is still 2.674 for me.
>
> =A0You found a clever way to trick the caching proxy that's messing thing=
s up
> for you!
>
> =A0Another thing that often works is to use a public open-proxy server to
> redirect the request for you; it only takes seconds to google a few up.

Another simple trick that usually works is to append
?some-random-stuff to the url, like:

http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe&go_away_proxy!

Regards,
David

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