[Cvsnt] [bugzilla-daemon at devnet.strata.com] [Bug 838] - WinCVS 1.3.8.1 doesn't support a proxy

Tony Hoyle tmh at nothing-on.tv
Fri Jun 7 23:24:24 BST 2002


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On Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:56:32 +0100, Paul Moore wrote:

> I raised a bug report for WinCVS 1.3 beta, saying that it no longer
> supports proxy connections. The response I got (attached below) states
> that the problem is that WinCVS 1.3 uses cvsnt for its underlying
> command line CVS utility, and cvsnt does not support proxy connections.
>
> Can proxy support be included into cvsnt? Otherwise I will be forced to
> remain with WinCVS 1.2, or alternatively to request that WinCVS revert
> to using its previous utility rather than cvsnt. As the comment attached
> below makes clear, I am not the only one with this problem.
>
Proxy support relied on buggy & misconfigured proxies... on any properly
configured site it wouldn't work anyway.

It's not really a function of cvs to bypass firewalls, especially the way
it was done.  If you want to do that use another program to create a
tunnel (preferably encrypted) or wait for someone to write a transport
that works over XML or something.

Tony


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