Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:59:32AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 2/9/2010 11:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Btw, I did check the difference in http headers in the before/after >> scenario and now see a new "Expires" field but I have no way of actually >> checking this to see if it really does

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Young
On 2/9/2010 11:05 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: That should reduce cygwin mailing list traffic at the expense of network traffic on cygwin.com I doubt it'll make a significant difference. Browser caches turn over pretty regularly, so between any two visits, the chance that there is still a c

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:03:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached >> >>In th

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached > >In the PTC spirit: > > > ExpiresActive On > > >

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Warren Young
On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints that setup.exe shouldn't be cached In the PTC spirit: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "now" -- Problem reports: http://cyg

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:21:56AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >Hello yet again, > >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >> >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: >> > >> >> These both work: >> >> >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/se

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello yet again, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: > >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> These both work: > >> > >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! > >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_pr

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:21:30AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: >On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > >> These both work: >> >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! >> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! > >This could work too: > >http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.1-1.exe No.

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 Dave Korn wrote: > These both work: > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! This could work too: http://www.cygwin.com/setup-1.7.1-1.exe :) -- 73, Ged. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-07 Thread Steven Monai
On 2010/02/07 8:18 AM, Dave Korn wrote: > These both work: > > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?&go_away_proxy! > http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe?go_away_proxy! Nice. But of course, you would only try this if you suspect you're getting a stale 'setup.exe' from a web cache. On the server side (a

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-07 Thread Dave Korn
On 07/02/2010 14:38, David Balažic wrote: > 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! Forgot that one, but you typo'd: it has to have an actual '?' in there, or the '&' doesn't get taken as part

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-07 Thread David Balažic
On 3 February 2010 13:46, Dave Korn 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 th

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-03 Thread Dave Korn
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 th

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-03 Thread Morten Kjærulff
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. Cheers, Morten -- www.MortenKjarulff.dk On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) > On 02/02/2010 06:15 AM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: >> >> It seem

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-02 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 02/02/2010 06:15 AM, Morten Kjærulff wrote: It seems I have the same problem, I get 2.674. How do I do a refresh? That's between you and your proxy. We don't intrude on a proxy's private life. ;-) You might try using a different avenue to the file, like 'wget' or something. -- Larry Hall

Re: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-02-02 Thread Morten Kjærulff
Hi, It seems I have the same problem, I get 2.674. How do I do a refresh? /Morten > --- Ven 29/1/10, Jurgen Defurne  ha scritto: > >> Dear all, >> >> I was just trying to upgrade my local package repository, >> but setup complains >> that a newer version 2.678 is available. However, when I >> d

R: Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-01-29 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Ven 29/1/10, Jurgen Defurne ha scritto: > Dear all, > > I was just trying to upgrade my local package repository, > but setup complains > that a newer version 2.678 is available. However, when I > download it directly > using wget http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and > execute it, I still get

Wrong setup.exe on http://www.cygwin.com/

2010-01-29 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Dear all, I was just trying to upgrade my local package repository, but setup complains that a newer version 2.678 is available. However, when I download it directly using wget http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe and execute it, I still get 2.677. Regards, Jurgen -- Problem reports: http://cy