for now I will try to convince cntlm people to support HTTP 1.0 cheers pawel
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:58:10PM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote: >>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: >>>>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. >> >>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 > > You are somehow misreading my comment. I didn't mention "HTTP anything" > and I don't see any occurrence of 1.1 in the patch. > > If you have a patch which changes setup.exe to use HTTP 1.1 we could > consider it but all of my previous comments still apply. > > cgf