Re: cause of install failure

Keith Marshall <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:36:50 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.devel
Organization MinGW Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 24/03/13 15:41, Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting me:
>> 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.

Indeed.  And of course, your original suggestion of setting HTTPS in 
profile.xml also succumbs to fall back to HTTP, when SF redirects the 
request for updated catalogues to an appropriate mirror host.

> Arthur will need to work with his network admins to overcome his
> issue on his side.

'Fraid so.

-- 
Regards,
Keith.

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