Re: svn checkout via a web-browser?

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2007-07-03 16:26:40 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > On 7/3/07, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> >> On 2007-07-03 13:40:47 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >> > Me have been struggling to access a subversion repo (svn checkout
> >> > svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk) due to being behind a proxy server. I
> >> > wonder if there's a way to download such repos without having an svn
> >> > client since I can access the web with a web-browser.
> >>
> >> Only if your web browser is a also svn client. But if it isn't, why
> >> don't you install a svn client?
> >
> > I failed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00075.html
> > And help didn't help:
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/07/msg00162.html
>
> You'll probably have the same problem with a web browser having a
> svn client extension. With a proxy server that filters some method,
> you can't access all the web, and changing the client won't solve
> your problem. If you control the web server itself, perhaps you can
> try something like SSH over HTTP (if CONNECT is allowed).

It's interesting to note that I tried TortoiseSVN which runs on
Windows and worked without a breeze. This leads me to think that the
web server (which I dodn't control) does accept svn requests.
The company network is run by Windows.

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