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local transfer required special privileges on Windows #39

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ninoles opened this issue Nov 25, 2016 · 1 comment · Fixed by #159
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local transfer required special privileges on Windows #39

ninoles opened this issue Nov 25, 2016 · 1 comment · Fixed by #159

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@ninoles
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ninoles commented Nov 25, 2016

Windows 7 and more have a very bad handling of symlinks, requiring the UAC dialog even if you're administrator (see http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/3472 for more details).
Since using symlink is the default behavior for local transfer, that's create weird situations where downloading from internet can be done without special permission but a local file those.
I think go-getter should better handled this case by default.

This issue is related to nomad issue 1714 (hashicorp/nomad#1714).

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F21 commented Jun 6, 2017

Seeing the same problem here. Downloading a file from the internet worked fine, but using a local file throws an error:

 symlink C:\Users\user\Desktop\somefile.zip C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\test918577318\archive: A required privilege is not held by the client.

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