X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=b1/45eibyKqvZ4Ei 7uimHdAfT0nkJdypZ6wG0VLdAxQDub2gIX97hvrol4hsXcV9DChNA8SDcaUrPwhV Ori8KGMgh4+proy+SG8jKeOQB0KjRccBp3LaNO+xlcE5cHVa1oX1mmYDe/V7Do4S WfB0/no3rgppX42WCHz4DLZKX54= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=CdEaFzEWaT+bJeexu/H4r/ +zjo8=; b=LP9mAwC4refYdKiKBkJMbTTXZlRKwBg+iFN57ar4xsuR2Gv2YRtV66 CcuBm6W8AW0dehGyVbqtXwA4LzB96zyho+sYAH14cF2EMXM6AdNdCWNoWNjvgyKU FNkuBKfzYXquNNz+N8dqtLC1xxDx7VvJ3IZdpkun+do1e5icGwKa4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_COUK,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*MI:sk:57E9D85, H*f:sk:57E9D85, H*i:sk:57E9D85, H*Ad:D*co.uk X-HELO: smtp-out-6.tiscali.co.uk Subject: Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ? To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <57E9D85D DOT 4030209 AT tlinx DOT org> From: David Stacey Message-ID: <12420175-0b4b-4465-f25c-1a9ab62f43e8@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:29:18 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57E9D85D.4030209@tlinx.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfNtj28rFYSFssoyvU7hBeFPrCA2slizCSfXczriX4PUXeh1GsHxcEviytexnNB0zz49LZY95bH3bugQ9PYbT1OVNhNXE5Cf3z6//2TWNXZepPh3Z3qpH 6+A0AYyupOGpX78b669swUcMp8c3nlsGL4fE4DMG/zXqUXP/yVcOHAt3 X-IsSubscribed: yes On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote: > What makes you think it is downloaded into the IE disk cache? > I don't think it should be -- as AFAIK, it doesn't use IE to download > anything setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't use a HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web traffic onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap way to add HTTPS support to setup? Dave. [1] Such as https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ (which has a HTTP equivalent, I know...) -- 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