On 10/6/07, Mike Gerdts <mgerdts at gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/6/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > > I would take this a little further; mirroring should not require > > special software > > or anything beyond putting files within a known structure on a network > > accessible server. It shouldn't be necessary to use or configure any > > special software in order to create a repository. > > And that such mirrors work using widely available and widely proxied > protocols. HTTP and HTTPS are OK. SSH proxied over HTTP is not. > (Hint: http://hg.opensolaris.org/ should exist - that's offtopic here > but used as a real life example of something that is broken.)
And that correct proxy handling, including authentication and picking up the system configuration correctly, is necessary. My past experience has also been that some sites get fussy about proxying (or allowing at all) traffic to non-standard ports - is there any data on how widespread that practice might be? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
