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Tony Hoyle <tmh at nothing-on.tv> writes: > Proxy support relied on buggy & misconfigured proxies... on any properly > configured site it wouldn't work anyway. I don't know whether my organisation's firewall is buggy or misconfigured. However, I don't have any access to the network specialists who set it up, so I can neither ask, nor can I ask for changes to allow CVS access (I would almost certainly be unable to put a convincing case for requiring the access, anyway). So WinCVS 1.2 is the only way I have of getting access to external CVS repositories. > 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. Nevertheless, WinCVS 1.2 works *for me* and WinCVS 1.3 does not. If cvsnt isn't going to support proxies, I either have to stick with WinCVS 1.2, or ask if it would be possible for WinCVS 1.3 to go back to its previous CVS version. If cvsnt is not going to support proxies, can you suggest a (pure client side) program which will act as a tunnel, as you suggest? It cannot require any changes on either the firewall, or on the CVS server at the other end (as I have no way of getting such changes made). Effectively, a separate program implementing the tunnelling that (the CVS supplied with) WinCVS 1.2 implements internally... It would be nice if this problem did not exist, but unfortunately, it does. And not just for me. I have personally been unable to contribute effectively to at least one Open Source project because of filewall issues and CVS (I wan't aware of WinCVS at the time :-(), and I know that other developers on the same project were also affected. [Luckily (!) the project in question moved away from using CVS because of this issue...] Paul. _______________________________________________ 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