Re: cause of install failure

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:41:19 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Message-ID <CA+sc5mmvC3S=eEmEQKnGSzm_sA8cx0qn4OUQ2aTkZW23oYD+8Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 23/03/13 16:13, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Is there any downside to https being the normal?
>
> I don't know; I'm no networking expert.
>

I'm thinking the redirect to https would be avoided.  SF does a
redirect from http to https.

>> I.E.: Should we modify the xml files to use https?
>
> It may not help.  I just did "curl -vL ..." with an HTTPS request for
> the msys-make-bin package file; SF redirects the request to a mirror,
> falling back to plain HTTP in the process.
>

Well that just sucks.  Arthur will need to work with his network
admins to overcome his issue on his side.

-- 
Earnie
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