Greetings, Jérôme Bouat!
>> If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything
>> to your system?
> My organisation forbids the use of IE. The corporate web browser is Firefox.
Doesn't change the fact proxy settings are available in control panel.
>> What makes you think it i
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?
Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing
If you can't access the internet, how would you download anything
to your system?
My organisation forbids the use of IE. The corporate web browser is Firefox.
What makes you think it is using
IE's cache?
I just performed this simple test :
1. clear the IE disk cache
2. use Setup.exe in
On 2016-09-27 12:29, David Stacey wrote:
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
thinki
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,
Jérôme Bouat wrote:
Hello,
I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage.
The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy
auto-configuration script of IE.
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Actually, it doesn't "rely" on it, it offers to
use whatever "IE" is set to instead of
On 2016-09-26 13:35, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk
storage.
The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy
auto-configuration script of IE.
To see your proxy config, try running:
$ wget -q -O - `ipconfig | \
sed '/^\s\+Connec
Hello,
I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage.
The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy auto-configuration
script of IE.
However, when a package is downloaded, it seems it is stored twice : one time
into the IE disk cache and one other tim
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