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Re: Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "Brian J. Krische" <bkrische at ra dot rockwell dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 21:42:20 +0300
- Subject: Re: Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror
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Greetings, Brian J. Krische!
> I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror.
> I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server
> instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a
> problem. It appears the cygwin setup application can't use HTTPS to connect
> to this local server. I even ran wireshark while the cygwin setup was
> running, and I didn't even see any attempts for the setup to connect to the
> server. The setup application iterated through the various package list
> files and errored out saying it couldn't download them.
> Is the cygwin setup application capable of using HTTPS to connect to a package server?
I think, the answer would be "SHTDI[1]"…
[1] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, January 22, 2016 21:41:05
Sorry for my terrible english...