On 2016-09-26 13:35, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
I'm using cygwin on a thin desktop computer which has limited disk storage. The network configuration of setup.exe relies on the proxy auto-configuration script of IE.
To see your proxy config, try running: $ wget -q -O - `ipconfig | \ sed '/^\s\+Connection-specific DNS Suffix[. ]\+:\s/!d; s///;/^\s*$/d;s ^ http://wpad. ;s $ /wpad.dat ' | sort -u` My ISP returns: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { return("DIRECT"); } Yours may point to a proxy server. You may bypass this in Setup dialogue "Select Your Internet Connection" by selecting "Direct Connection", unless you are blocked from directly connecting to the internet from your system.
However, when a package is downloaded, it seems it is stored twice : one time into the IE disk cache and one other time into the cygwin packages disk cache.
Setup does not use IE for downloading or INetCache for its packages. I never use IE and have seen no sign of IE cache files appearing after downloads using Setup or any other products. Perhaps you have an (old/poor) Anti-Virus product which downloads files into the IE cache for scanning or unzipping, rather than unzipping and checking the download as it comes down the wire? See https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA and the link in that entry to https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda
Is there a way to make setup.exe understand the auto-configuration script without any web browser ?
In Setup dialogue "Select Your Internet Connection" you can select "Use Internet Explorer Proxy Settings", if you can not use a direct connection. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
