X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:05:15 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/ Message-ID: <20100209180515.GB17500@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <1265668504 DOT 29489 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> <20100209164916 DOT GB18306 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4B719B03 DOT 40309 AT etr-usa DOT com> <20100209180323 DOT GA17500 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100209180323.GA17500@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:03:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached >> >>In the PTC spirit: >> >> >> ExpiresActive On >> >> >> ExpiresDefault "now" >> >> > >Thanks Warren. I appreciate the PTC. This was already suggested here: > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00149.html > >I've implemented that suggestion. Now, in theory, all of the proxies >out there will not cache setup.exe. That should reduce cygwin mailing >list traffic at the expense of network traffic on cygwin.com and on the >networks that the proxies serve. I guess that's a good enough compromise >although I suspect that we'll still hear from misconfigured proxies. > >Thanks to Steven for the original suggestion. Btw, I did check the difference in http headers in the before/after scenario and now see a new "Expires" field but I have no way of actually checking this to see if it really does solve a problem. FYI. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple