Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages

[Randall R Schulz]

Hi,

I've noticed that when I use an FTP mirror to download Cygwin components 
and I take too long poring over the list, clicking and selecting and 
whatnot, sometimes the FTP server will time out and close the control 
connection, and when I finally move on to the download stage, it fails 
immediately ("Download incomplete") and I'm forced (well, offered the 
option) to start over.

Perhaps Setup.exe could periodically send an FTP NOOP command to keep the 
control connection alive? Alternately, it could attempt to re-connect. I 
have no idea how much work this would be, so please just consider it an 
offhand suggestion.

This is Setup 2.249.2.5, Windows 2000, SP2, dial-up modem connection using 
the "Direct Connection" option of Setup.exe.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


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