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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 _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list Cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs