-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney <> wrote:
Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test To: "The Cygwin Mailing List" <cygwin@cygwin.com> Cc: "Ian Lambert" <> Date: Monday, May 15, 2017, 12:12 PM On 15/05/2017 16:29, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote: > -------------------------------------------- > On Sun, 5/14/17, Jon Turney <> wrote: [...] I think that "403 forbidden" means that this request is prohibited by the configuration of the proxy, so really you need to contact whoever administers it. Since curl/wget works to fetch the same URLs through that proxy, it might be that the user-agent is disallowed, possibly you could test this by attempting trying with --user-agent="Cygwin Setup"? = = = The proxy admins have no interest in helping with this. :) Indeed, user-agent of Cygwin Setup is a problem: $ wget --user-agent="Cygwin Setup" https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe --2017-05-15 16:33:25-- https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe Resolving our.glorious.proxy... pr.ox.yi.p Connecting to our.glorious.proxy|pr.ox.yi.p|:port... connected. Proxy tunneling failed: ForbiddenUnable to establish SSL connection. $ wget https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe --2017-05-15 16:33:40-- https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe Resolving our.glorious.proxy... pr.ox.yi.p Connecting to our.glorious.proxy|pr.ox.yi.p|:port... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 907283 (886K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-2.878.x86_64.exe’ setup-2.878.x86_64.exe 100%[============================================================================>] 886.02K 764KB/s in 1.2s 2017-05-15 16:33:41 (764 KB/s) - ‘setup-2.878.x86_64.exe’ saved [907283/907283] -- 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