setup.exe : proxy auto-configuration script without IE ?

[David Stacey]

On 27/09/16 03:24, Linda Walsh wrote:
> What makes you think it is downloaded into the IE disk cache?
> I don't think it should be -- as AFAIK, it doesn't use IE to download
> anything


setup using IE to do its downloading is a bad idea. But, that got me 
thinking, so allow me a crazy thought. AFAIK, Cygwin's setup can't use a 
HTTPS mirror [1]. Given the desire to move more and more web traffic 
onto HTTPS, would an option to download through IE be a cheap way to add 
HTTPS support to setup?

Dave.

[1] Such as https://mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/ 
(which has a HTTP equivalent, I know...)


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