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Archive for April 2nd, 2025

Installing Chocolatey on Windows 10 and up

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02

Steps for installing Chocolatey on Windows 11 and up or 10 version 1803 and up.

Since I often install Windows on machines where it is not easy to copy/paste longer install commands my steps are slightly different than the ones on [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Installing Chocolatey:

  1. Start a regular command prompt
  2. Either these two (the options are equivalent, see [Wayback/Archive] curl: transfer a URL | curl Commands | Man Pages | ManKier for --remote-name and -O):
    • curl --remote-name https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1
    • curl -O https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1

    Note the cURL pre-installed on Windows 10 since at least 6 years*: release 1803 or insider build 17063 is good enough to download the Chocolatey install script

  3. Inspect the downloaded install.ps1 to check if you spot anything you dislike
  4. Start an elevated (administrator) command prompt
  5. Start PowerShell
  6. Execute this command
    • Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
  7. Execute this command in the folder where you downloaded install.ps1
    • .\install.ps1
  • Yup, a custom build of cURL has been pre-installed on Windows 10 and up since more than 6 years:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Chocolatey, cURL, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Some HTTP redirect checking sites compared

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02

 

Every now and then I want to check how a URL redirect, for instance when checking out why a domain failed loading in browsers a while ago because of certificate problems:

The thing was that back then, the site officially did not have a security certificate, but somehow the provider had installed a self-signed one. Most web-browsers then auto-redirect from http to https. Luckily the archival sites can archive without redirecting:

When querying [Wayback/Archive] redirect check – Google Search, you get quite some results. These are the ones I use most in descending order of preference and why they are at that position:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, archive.is / archive.today, Communications Development, Development, Encryption, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet, Internet protocol suite, ISP, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, WayBack machine, Web Development, wget, xs4all | Leave a Comment »