On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, dAniel hAhler wrote: > Hello cygwin-list, > > on Mon, 16. Feb 2004 at 09:24:32 -0500 Christopher Faylor wrote: > > C> The mirrors are checked twice a day to ensure that they are synced > C> with the master. If they aren't they aren't, they are not included > C> in the mirrors list. > > Great. > btw: is there something like sending "If-Modified-Since" and getting a > 304-Reply planned/possible when fetching the zipped setup.ini? > It's quite annoying if you just received it on a slow dialup and have > to do it some minutes later again, because you had to cancel setup > download for some reason. > > I think this could also save bandwidth on the mirrors and would be > even useful for the mirror.lst.
Planned -- no. Possible -- perhaps. PTC. See <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html> for instructions on getting setup sources. FWIW, if you use IE5 settings, IE may cache the file for you (I've actually been bitten by this a few times). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
