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Re: Feature request - option to save username and password for proxy in setup.exe
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:55:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: Feature request - option to save username and password for proxy in setup.exe
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- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0530, Siddhant Saraf wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I like that setup.exe remembers the HTTP proxy host name and port for
>the subsequent runs of setup.exe.
>
>If the proxy requires authentication, it prompts for username and
>pasword. Can it include an option to save the username and password
>too ?
>Maybe it can have a checkbox which says "Remember username and password".
This shouldn't be too hard to implement if someone wants to take a stab
at submitting a patch. You can save these values in the setup.rc file.
You can check out setup sources via CVS:
https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/setup.html
cgf
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