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Re: Installation behind proxy with modified HTTP headers
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: oinkl <oinkl at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:28:35 +0300
- Subject: Re: Installation behind proxy with modified HTTP headers
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Greetings, oinkl!
> I'm installing Cygwin behind a proxy.
> From my machine, the only way I can curl to external websites is by
> using the following flags:
> curl --insecure --header "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;
> rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0" --proxy <proxyip>:3128 www.google.com
> I have to ignore SSL certificates, modify the user agent HTTP header,
> and specify the proxy server. Is there any way I can specify something
> similar for the Cygwin installation?
You may try cascade the proxy, but it might be easier to download necessary
packets somewhere else and install from local directory.
> I get the following log if I specify only the proxy server (using the
> proxy option) during the installation:
> 2015/02/02 16:44:28 Starting cygwin install, version 2.859
> 2015/02/02 16:44:28 User has backup/restore rights
> 2015/02/02 16:44:28 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed
> 2 No such file or directory
> 2015/02/02 16:44:28 Current Directory: C:\Users\admin\Desktop
> 2015/02/02 16:44:28 Could not open service McShield for query, start and
> stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
> 2015/02/02 16:44:30 source: network install
> 2015/02/02 16:44:32 root: C:\cygwin system
> 2015/02/02 16:44:32 Selected local directory: C:\Users\admin\Desktop
> 2015/02/02 16:44:33 net: Proxy
> Cached mirror list unavailable
> get_url_to_membuf http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
> getUrlToStream http://cygwin.com/mirrors.lst
> getUrlToStream failed!
> get_url_to_membuf failed!
> Defaulting to empty mirror list
> 2015/02/02 16:44:36 io_stream_cygfile: fopen(/etc/setup/setup.rc) failed
> 2 No such file or directory
> 2015/02/02 16:44:36 Ending cygwin install
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 06.02.2015, <20:27>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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