The install uses the same download code as pacman, and this is a call to wget. It might be worth experimenting with options to wget to see if you can work around the firewall.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Stefano Lanzavecchia <[email protected]> wrote: >> I will add my observations on the current GTK beta install for windows >> machines. On my home machines I had no problem downloading a clean >> j701 beta and running install 'gtkide' in jconsole. On office >> machines - behind the usual corporate firewall the getgtkbin verb >> hangs. I looked at the definition of the verb and was oddly able to >> directly download the gtkwin32.zip in the browser. I expect the >> firewall recognized the browser request and allowed it but did not > recognized the j request. > > You could try and check if the browser has a proxy setup. In IE8 you would > check Internet Options>Connections>LAN settings. The presence of the proxy > could explain why a piece of software that makes a direct socket connections > fails, while the Internet Browser succeeds. > -- > Stefano > >> "Hitting is 50% above the shoulders." --- > Ted Williams < > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
