The folks who couldn't reproduce it were using different command syntax than I.
Mine: wget -O setup-x86_64.exe http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Theirs: wget https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Why did I use that syntax? Because it was given in the OP, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00714.html, and it worked at the time, so I stuck with it. So, experimenting with this, I was able to reproduce what I reported from the command line using my syntax, above, again creating the gzip formatted file. Then I tried the alternate syntax ("Theirs"), and I got the desired executable binary, as others have found. Then the surprising part: I then retried my syntax, and it created the correct executable image! I saw that this exercise created file ~/.wget-hsts, so I deleted it, reran my syntax, and again it created the gzip format. I also noticed that it was significantly quicker to download the .gzip format, even though the size difference is small. To Jon who asks: > Do you have something in your ~/.wgetrc to add an "accept-encoding: gzip" > header or something? No, I don't even have this file. Here, I show the commands and output that corroborate my assertions: 1. reproduce original results 2. reproduce others' results 3. show others' results influences my results 4. remove hidden file to restore my original results $ time wget -O setup-x86_64.exe http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe --2017-06-19 13:04:16-- http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 877562 (857K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ setup-x86_64.exe 100%[===================>] 856.99K --.-KB/s in 0.01s 2017-06-19 13:04:17 (78.5 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [877562/877562] real 0m0.306s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.046s $ ls -l total 860 -rw-r----- 1 knellis Domain Users 877562 Jun 7 12:58 setup-x86_64.exe $ file setup-x86_64.exe setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix $ rm setup-x86_64.exe $ time wget https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe --2017-06-19 13:04:51-- https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 906771 (886K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ setup-x86_64.exe 100%[===================>] 885.52K 1.31MB/s in 0.7s 2017-06-19 13:04:52 (1.31 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [906771/906771] real 0m0.992s user 0m0.031s sys 0m0.061s $ ls -l total 888 -rw-r----- 1 knellis Domain Users 906771 Jun 7 12:58 setup-x86_64.exe $ file setup-x86_64.exe setup-x86_64.exe: PE32+ executable (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows $ rm setup-x86_64.exe $ time wget -O setup-x86_64.exe http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy --2017-06-19 13:05:27-- https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 906771 (886K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ setup-x86_64.exe 100%[===================>] 885.52K 1.03MB/s in 0.8s 2017-06-19 13:05:28 (1.03 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [906771/906771] real 0m1.171s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.031s $ ls -l total 888 -rw-r----- 1 knellis Domain Users 906771 Jun 7 12:58 setup-x86_64.exe $ file setup-x86_64.exe setup-x86_64.exe: PE32+ executable (GUI) x86-64, for MS Windows $ rm setup-x86_64.exe $ rm ~/.wget-hsts $ time wget -O setup-x86_64.exe http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe --2017-06-19 13:06:29-- http://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe Resolving cygwin.com... 209.132.180.131 Connecting to cygwin.com|209.132.180.131|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 877562 (857K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ setup-x86_64.exe 100%[===================>] 856.99K 3.99MB/s in 0.2s 2017-06-19 13:06:30 (3.99 MB/s) - ‘setup-x86_64.exe’ saved [877562/877562] real 0m0.399s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.046s $ ls -l total 860 -rw-r----- 1 knellis Domain Users 877562 Jun 7 12:58 setup-x86_64.exe $ file setup-x86_64.exe setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix $ I shall change to the better syntax. --Ken Nellis -- 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
