Hi! When downloading http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe with Firefox, the server sends no Content-Length header, so the download manager can not show a percentage progress. Here are the headers captured with the Live HTTP Headers plugin:
http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe GET /setup.exe HTTP/1.1 Host: www.cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://www.cygwin.com/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:51:41 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:55:13 GMT Etag: "18e1397-a6213-b43f1a40" Accept-Ranges: bytes Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Cache-Control: max-age=0 Expires: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:51:41 GMT Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: application/octet-stream -- 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