2017-03-29 14:57 GMT+03:00 Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk>: > On 28/03/2017 19:03, Ivan Gagis wrote: >> >> Ah, I see, even though I use http it still redirects to https... >> >> Is it hard to add support for https? Any plans to do that? > > > No plans, but we take patches :)
I wanted to look into that, but could not find the sources of setup utility in the cygwin git repo :). Now, I found some way to workaround this, on github it is possible to make a github-pages to work with master branch and then after I connected a custom domain to github-pages it was possible to use it with HTTP instead of forced HTTPS. > > >> On 03/28/2017 08:57 PM, David Stacey wrote: >>> >>> On 28/03/17 18:21, Ivan Gagis wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm trying to setup a cygwin overlay repo right on github, here: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/igagis/cygwin-repo >>>> >>>> But when I pass the repo URL to setup utility as follows: >>>> >>>> http://github.com/igagis/cygwin-repo/raw/master/ >>>> >>>> it does not work. Setup utility tries to download setup.xz and just >>>> stalls with 0% progress bar, and the only option is to Cancel the setup. >>>> >>>> >>>> So, the question is what is wrong? Could there be some redirections >>>> happening on github which the setup program does not support? >>>> >>>> It looks like when using this 'raw content' URLs to github it works >>>> as usual file tree, shouldn't it work? >>> >>> >>> This is because Cygwin's setup supports http but not https. -- 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
