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RE: Will DAV look like just a normal http request?

From: McKenna, Simon (RGH) <Simon.McKenna_at_rgh.sa.gov.au>
Date: 2003-12-15 01:15:22 CET

-=> > for any reason ). But http requests are open. So to
-=> > make a short story long , will a request over the net
-=> > to a svn repo using DAV look like just a normal
-=> > http request?
-=>
-=> No, it won't. At least not if you want to commit
-=> data. Just browsing the tree should be possible,
-=> but other DAV commands are sometimes blocked
-=> by firewalls.
-=>
-=> But if you secure your repository access with ssl
-=> then all those special DAV commands get encrypted
-=> too and the firewall won't be able to block those
-=> specific commands.

Thanks for the tip Stefan!

I was getting a timeout message trying to do a checkout
from svn.collab.net over http. I now suspect it was
due to my government firewall upstream of me.

Switching to https://svn.collab.net solved the problem :)

Cheers,
Simon

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