Re: HTTP pushes

From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Nov 2, 2005, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0511011644500.1362@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
In-Reply-To: <7v1x1z51id.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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>> I think this is useful. There are restrictive firewalls out there, which
>> only allow ports 80 and 443 to be connected to. Your work would fit in
>> right there.
>
> Another solution for this would be to allow connect.c to use a
> HTTP connect passthru proxy. CVS does this with an ugly but easy
> to understand notation:
>
>    ':pserver;proxy=firewall;proxyport=3128:user@host:/path/to/repo
>

please note that there are firewalls out there that don't let you use port 443 (and the connect command) as a free pass to do anything you want. They verify that you at least do a valid SSL handshake immediatly after or they figure you are trying to bypass them and shut you down.

David Lang

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