On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 07-May-08, at 6:04 PM, Puneet Lakhina wrote:
Almost everything. SVN uses WebDAV to access repositories over http.
http://subversion.tigris.org/webdav-usage.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06s04.html
ahh - learnt something new - thanks
The correct term to use here would be WebDAV over http (instead of svn over http). I suppose the reason for blocking would be that WebDAV is an extension of the http protocol. It adds certain methods like PROPFIND, COPY etc. So if your ISP blocks anything other than the basic HTTP methods (get,post, head,put,delete,options,trace) it will block WebDAV.
https is generally transparently proxied, so that should solve your problem.
how? the server is serving svn over http - so how can he use https?
Ofcourse here I assume that the server also supports https.
afaik most oss projects use http and dont support https
I think the anonymous/guest checkout is over http, but the comitters have got to have https right? They have to send authentication information to the server and surely that doesn't travel over an unencrypted channel.
See here for an example of comitter access over https. http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html
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Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon@au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/