On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 9:32 AM Brian Inglis wrote: > > OTOH, if you download the file over HTTPS.. then your client supports > > SSL. Which is exactly what I'm saying should be mandatory. > > Forcing TLS means blocking anyone who for any reason can not use TLS: this is > a > performance and support burden compared to allowing both HTTP:80 and > HTTPS:443.
OK. Personally I have trouble believing any such person exists. That is, a person who has access to an HTTP client, but not an HTTPS client, for the one-time operation of downloading setup.exe. What are they using, a TRS-80? Anyway no worries, I'm giving up on this issue. Too much inertia around here. -AC -- Archie L. Cobbs -- 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