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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:23:40 -0700
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On 2010/03/14 10:05 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> Here is the proposal:
> 
> Name setup.exe as cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe or similar meaning and continue to
> provide setup.exe as the most current cygwin-setup-v.vv.vv.exe (by symlink or
> redirect)

An additional idea: Serve setup.exe via HTTPS. That would likely defeat
all but the most intrusive web-filtering proxies, and would also
virtually eliminate problems caused by web caches.

The costs would be relatively small: the purchase of an SSL cert, a
slight increase in server load, and somebody's one-time effort to set it up.

-SM
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