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RE: [greenbaum@ti.com: cygwin setup and firewalls]
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>, cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: [greenbaum@ti.com: cygwin setup and firewalls]
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:51:33 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie [mailto:dj@delorie.com]
> Can someone test setup from behind a firewall? I've gotten many
> complaints about it not working when it needs to use a proxy to get to
> the Internet.
Is there a specific firewall that we are having problems with?
I have only run setup.exe from behind a firewall that is why I coded it to
use wininet. That way it would use the same mechanism IE does to go through
the firewall. I did this for somewhat selfish reasons, our #(*&^ proxy at
work ONLY works with IE and wininet compatible software.
This leads me to a possible source of difficulty I hadn't considered. If
the user does not have IE 4 or higher properly configured to access the
Internet through their firewall, setup will not be able to use the
predefined information in wininet to download the source. I should have
realized this earlier and for that I apologize. Now to come up with a
working solution for this situation. Hmmm. I will have to look into this.
BTW, the firewalls I am going through are MS-Proxy Server and the ipchains
based Edge Fireplug.
application/ms-tnef