On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- > regards > > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate, NRC-FOSS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ > > > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ Latest Post: javac -g -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
