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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: Tue, 16 May 2017 10:55:33 -0600
- Subject: Re: setup release candidate - please test
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- Reply-to: Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca
On 2017-05-16 09:18, Ian Lambert via cygwin wrote:
>> Does it work if you try user agent combos of {Cygwin-Setup,CygwinSetup}/{2.878-3,2.878}?
> None of these work with wget.
>>> You might also try with no user-agent (wget --user-agent="" apparently)
> This also does not work with wget.
>>> Depending on the results of the tests suggested with wget, I may
>>> consider changing or removing the user-agent reported by cygwin
>>> setup, or providing such an option.
> Except not using the option, this is the only one I found that works here with wget:
> --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko"
> (Note: proxy_user and proxy_password, as well as are also being set
> in .wgetrc and .bashrc and https_proxy, http_proxy and ftp_proxy are
> additionally being set in .bashrc)
What about just a plain --user-agent=Mozilla/4.0?
That and null are the only values I have hard wired into scripts where
there were problems.
With your current browser, you can go to
http://www.askapache.com/online-tools/whoami/
to find out your current headers.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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