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Re: setup release candidate - please test
- From: Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 15:11:55 -0600
- Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test
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- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2017-05-15 14:42, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 5/15/17, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 15/05/2017 16:29, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
>> On Sun, 5/14/17, Jon Turney wrote:
> I think that "403 forbidden" means that this request is prohibited
> by the configuration of the proxy, so really you need to contact
> whoever administers it.
>
> Since curl/wget works to fetch the same URLs through that proxy, it
> might be that the user-agent is disallowed, possibly you could test
> this by attempting trying with --user-agent="Cygwin Setup"?
>
> The proxy admins have no interest in helping with this. :)
>
> Indeed, user-agent of Cygwin Setup is a problem:
>
> $ wget --user-agent="Cygwin Setup" https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe
> --2017-05-15 16:33:25-- https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe
> Resolving our.glorious.proxy... pr.ox.yi.p
> Connecting to our.glorious.proxy|pr.ox.yi.p|:port... connected.
> Proxy tunneling failed: ForbiddenUnable to establish SSL connection.
>
> $ wget https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe
> --2017-05-15 16:33:40-- https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878.x86_64.exe
> Resolving our.glorious.proxy... pr.ox.yi.p
> Connecting to our.glorious.proxy|pr.ox.yi.p|:port... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 907283 (886K) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: ‘setup-2.878.x86_64.exe’
>
> setup-2.878.x86_64.exe 100%[============================================================================>] 886.02K 764KB/s in 1.2s
>
> 2017-05-15 16:33:41 (764 KB/s) - ‘setup-2.878.x86_64.exe’ saved [907283/907283]
Does it work if you try user agent combos of
{Cygwin-Setup,CygwinSetup}/{2.878-3,2.878}?
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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