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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 anythingsetup 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? [1] Such as https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ (which has a HTTP equivalent, I know...)
Would probably be easier to replace the existing plumbing using libcurl rather than dealing with IE over COM or whatever the Win10 version is. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
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