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Re: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
- From: Dario Alcocer <alcocer at helixdigital dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: Setup.exe: FTP Control Timeout While Choosing Packages
- References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020711081940.01f7dbe0@pop3.cris.com>
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 08:27:12AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> I've noticed that when I use an FTP mirror to download Cygwin components
> and I take too long poring over the list, clicking and selecting and
> whatnot, sometimes the FTP server will time out and close the control
> connection, and when I finally move on to the download stage, it fails
> immediately ("Download incomplete") and I'm forced (well, offered the
> option) to start over.
I've noticed this behavior too. The work-around I use is to only download
from the HTTP mirrors; I've never seen this timeout problem with the
HTTP mirror servers I've tried.
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Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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