On 3 February 2010 13:46, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 03/02/2010 08:16, Morten Kjærulff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I tried downloading http://www.cygwin.com//setup.exe (note 2 //), and >> got 2.680. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe is still 2.674 for me. > > You found a clever way to trick the caching proxy that's messing things up > for you! > > Another thing that often works is to use a public open-proxy server to > redirect the request for you; it only takes seconds to google a few up.
Another simple trick that usually works is to append ?some-random-stuff to the url, like: http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe&go_away_proxy! Regards, David -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple