the difference in http and https is port 80 versus 8080 >On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:57 AM, David Stacey <drsta...@tiscali.co.uk> 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. > > Dave. > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
