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Re: Cygwin setup with HTTPS package mirror


Greetings, Brian J. Krische!

> I'm using a local LAN server to act as a cache of a cygwin package mirror.
> I'm trying to have the Cygwin setup application use this local server
> instead of one of the public mirrors. However, I'm having a bit of a
> problem. It appears the cygwin setup application can't use HTTPS to connect
> to this local server. I even ran wireshark while the cygwin setup was
> running, and I didn't even see any attempts for the setup to connect to the
> server. The setup application iterated through the various package list
> files and errored out saying it couldn't download them.

> Is the cygwin setup application capable of using HTTPS to connect to a package server?

I think, the answer would be "SHTDI[1]"…

[1] http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, January 22, 2016 21:41:05

Sorry for my terrible english...

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