William Guthrie wrote: > I am glad this thread was ongoing, because I ran into this error too, and it > helped to know someone else was experiencing it. The problem appears to be our > corporate firewall. Is there a generic way to get svn to do a checkout around > a firewall? In the meantime I found I can checkout from home.
I just realized what the issue is when I read your post. Subversion does indeed use HTTP as the protocol to communicate between a client and repository server. However, it uses the WebDAV methods over HTTP to implement versioning, transactions, etc. So while typical web browsing uses HTTP GET and HTTP POST methods, Subversion also uses HTTP PROPFIND, HTTP MKACTIVITY, and several other WebDAV methods. Most corporate firewalls (or more likely, transparent proxies) are not configured to pass or proxy these less frequently used (but still standard) HTTP methods. This results in being able to put the URL in your browser and being able to see the latest version come up, but having Subversion error out when it doesn't get responses to its queries. One way around this is to use SSL via a https: URL. Here, all the HTTP protocol stuff is necessarily passed through the gateway unchanged (it's encrypted in the tunnel so the gateway can't "know" what it is.) It's just like going to your bank's online web interface. But this requires configuration on the server end to support, and gnuradio.org is not set up that way. It burns a significant amount of CPU power (for the encryption) and we'd have to evaluate whether our setup is sufficient to handle the load. In the short term you can try to convince the powers that be in your company to enable "WebDAV methods" in their web proxy or firewall. Johnathan Corgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
