Re: setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

[Jérôme Bouat <jerome dot bouat at laposte dot net>]

> > 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 using libcurl
> rather than dealing with IE over COM or whatever the Win10 version is.

Maybe a liburl implementation of http(s)/ftp(s) protocols will make Setup.exe smarter : just give the proxy auto-configuration URL as argument :)


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