setup 2.878 only processes one site

[David Rothenberger]

Jon Turney wrote:
> On 17/05/2017 21:45, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 17/05/2017 18:06, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>> On 17/05/17 00:14, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>>>> When I use the new Direct Connection option in setup 2.878, it 
>>>>>> appears
>>>>>> that setup only downloads the setup.xz file from one of the three
>>>>>> sites
>>>>>> I have selected.
>>>>>
>>>>> Something which might give this impression is that setup will now
>>>>> cache setup.xz, and only download it if it has changed.
>>>>
>>>> I think you nailed it. I tried again this morning and the first time I
>>>> ran setup, it did contact our local site, but it did not on subsequent
>>>> runs (even to see if the file has changed). I then modified our web
>>>
>>> This would be very bad, if true.  Are you sure that we aren't
>>> contacting the server at all? (such requests might not be logged in
>>> some configurations)
>>
>> Yes, I'm sure. I verified our web server logs requests with the
>> If-Modified-Since header. Also, I used wireshark to confirm there was no
>> request at all to our web server.
> 
> Hmm... In my testing I saw requests with If-Modified-Since: and 
> If-None-Match: headers being sent and a 304 Not Modified response being 
> sent.
> 
> I added INTERNET_FLAG_RESYNCHRONIZE, which looks like it might be needed 
> to do the right thing if the server doesn't send an ETag header, and 
> made another build.

My server does send the ETag header. I'm using Apache 2.4.

> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-4-g582a35.x86.exe
> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.878-4-g582a35.x86_64.exe
> 
> Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things?

The problem is indeed fixed with these builds. Thanks!

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