[PATCH setup 11/11] Use wininet for fetching URLs in direct (non-proxy) case (DO NOT APPLY)

Åke Rehnman ake.rehnman@gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 15:33:00 GMT 2017


Hi,

On 2017-04-28 14:12, Jon Turney wrote:
>  From the discussion in [1], I was somewhat surprised to learn that setup
> doesn't support https or ftps.
For the same exact reason I've just recently patched in curl....

> Problems with this patch:
>
> No progress feedback as we download.  We just get handed the whole file by
> wininet.
curl doesn't have this problem.

Although it swell a bit compare to the original installer, from 861kB to 
3766kB.

/Ake



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