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 -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
