----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Downloading problems - either won't D/L at all or truncates over 1MB
> On 10 Jan 2002 at 10:06, Robert Collins wrote: > > I am not behind a firewall but have also had various problems similar to some of > those reported by $Bill: servers that hung, file downloads that were reported by > setup.exe during the install phase as "incomplete," and so on. Not the specific file size > limit problem $Bill is reporting, I need to add to be precise. Ok. If you can provide specifics - what mirror site server, does it support passive/active FTP (if FTP), or what HTTP software (if HTTP), are you using a proxy, if so what proxy (and version) and did it require authentication, and are you using the IE settings, or direct, or manual proxy - then we can start to look for patterns. All the above are needed, because (for instance) you may be using private mirror sites. > How I have handled the obstacles I have experienced --since I believed that they > were apparently "endemic" to the Cygwin setup system as it is currently designed -- > was just to perservere -- sometimes losing hours of time in the process -- until I could > finally get a good setup run. Try the latest setup.exe snapshots. They support multiple mirrors to address this issue. > The most recent setup.exe is a major improvement in terms of clarity, I gave a huge > sigh of relief and wanted to stand up and cheer when I saw the totally new heirarchical > display style. That part of what's been accomplished is just great. I believe that > problems may exist on the server network side or with the programming involved in > that. The problems *may* be in the setup code. However, setup will attempt to use the MS inet helper library, which results in the same code as MSIE uses being used to do the download. I hope thats not too buggy :}. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
