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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon GoSecure

Windows 7 support

Open obilodeau opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments
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Note: This is a placeholder. We are not actively working on this. Contributions welcome!

We have a work in progress branch about this: https://github.com/GoSecure/pywsus/tree/win7_support

obilodeau avatar Oct 30 '20 17:10 obilodeau

Instead of bundling the cab file (impossible due to licensing issues), @MaxNad suggested that we forward the request to the real WSUS server which is a great idea!

obilodeau avatar Oct 30 '20 17:10 obilodeau

There are currently two problems with the Win7 support branch:

  1. Distribution of the binary - We could forward the call to the actual WSUS server to bypass this problem. However, this should be a separate switch since providing the binary could still be used in cases where the server is unreachable.
  2. HEAD request problem - While testing the branch, we have noticed that the client sometimes send a HEAD request and doesn't follow up with the download of the cab file. This issue should be investigated a bit more before the branch is merged.

MaxNad avatar Oct 30 '20 18:10 MaxNad