never mind, somehow I assumed setup.exe is using HTTP 1.1. I am wrong, setup is using HTTP 1.0 cntlm does not implement HTTP 1.0 correctly. Given your comment, I assume you have no interest to switch to HTTP 1.1
thanks for the prompt response On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 03:48:16PM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote: >>hi, >> >>sorry for the cross post. I just realized setup.exe should be >>discussed here and not in main cygwin mailing list >> >>I have created patch for setup.exe to make it work with cntlm proxy. >>Upon investigation I have discovered that, setup.exe does not handle >>well the situation when connection is not closed at the end of each >>individual file (Keep-Alive) and gets stuck. >>If the HTTP response from proxy contains Content-Length, patched >>version uses provided length to detect end of file condition. >> >>What are the chances to include it in official setup.exe release? > > Nonexistent as it stands right now. > > Your submission lacks a ChangeLog and, more importantly, comments. I > have no idea why you're making the changes that you've made. You're > changing code that has worked for years so we really need some > justification for why what you've done is necessary.