X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 14:54:55 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/ Message-ID: <20100209195455.GA20172@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> <20100209180515 DOT GB17500 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4B71B094 DOT 40202 AT etr-usa DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B71B094.40202@etr-usa.com> 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 11:59:32AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 2/9/2010 11:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> 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. > >The Net panel in the Firebug extension for Firefox can do this. And >indeed, it looks like you haven't fully defeated caching yet. I used both lynx and firefox's "Live HTTP Headers" plugin. Both reported something like this: Cache-Control: max-age=0 Expires: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:16 GMT I think that's good enough. Putting more work into this is not something that I'm signing up for. >Incidentally, while poking around with this, I ran into a spate of >validation errors on the home page. One particularly ugly one is a >second tag on line 261 of the home page. Yes, others have mentioned this before. Please don't take my appreciation for solutions to this particular problem as an indication that I also want to hear about website cleanups. I really don't. I debated whether I should make the above point because it sounds WJM but decided that I'd better say something or this thread would morph into people talking about their favorite web site validation tools. 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