Re: Add proxy support to cvs?

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 17:17, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
> 
> At the moment I'm using WinCvs because it's the only way to get over
> our company proxy. It's not possible with native cvs. But I'd like to work
> with normal cvs so I can also use it on the Linux box. The guys from
> WinCvs added proxy support so it's not impossible. Wouldn't that be
> something for cvs also? There have been quite some questions/requests
> on this list about this subject. If WinCvs could use cvs, why not in return
> use something from WinCvs?

If you can use ssh to get through your company proxy, you can set the
CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh (or ssh2), and use the :ext: method
to access the server.

If you need to use ssh with options or parameters, you can even set
CVS_RSH to a shell script that calls ssh with those parameters.


What form of proxy is it? What type(s) of proxy(s) is(are) WinCVS
supporting? There're a lot out there, without more information it's
impossible to actually say 'oh, you can use blah'.





Jenn V.
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