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Re: Setup with HTTPS mirror
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 20:20:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Setup with HTTPS mirror
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- References: <974be1f2-39d2-ffb3-2267-83e13ab10692@tiscali.co.uk>
David Stacey writes:
> I'm setting up a local Cygwin package mirror, serving the files over
> HTTPS. I'm having difficulty getting the Setup executable to fetch the
> setup.ini file. Does Cygwin's setup support HTTPS, or is it HTTP only?
I think it's HTTP only at the moment. I have no idea how difficult it'd
be to add HTTPS, but if you want to do it correctly it would add quite a
bit of stuff. Note that HTTPS only gives you opaqueness, not any extra
security.
Regards,
Achim.
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