[fossil-users] socks proxy fossil sync

2015-10-20 Thread Paolo Bolzoni
Dear list, I'd like to use fossil in a strangely configurated headless machine. In that machine to connected to the internet I need to use a socks proxy. I checked the fossil manual, but I could not find anything about it. It is possible to clone and sync via socks proxies? I'll be happy to read

Re: [fossil-users] socks proxy fossil sync

2015-10-20 Thread Richard Hipp
On 10/20/15, Paolo Bolzoni wrote: > Dear list, > > I'd like to use fossil in a strangely configurated headless machine. > In that machine to connected to the internet I need to use a socks > proxy. > > I checked the fossil manual, but I could not find anything about it. > It is possible to clone a

Re: [fossil-users] socks proxy fossil sync

2015-10-20 Thread Paolo Bolzoni
I actually found that page, but it speaks only of http proxies. Not socks proxies. At the moment I solved using tsocks[1]. [1] http://tsocks.sourceforge.net On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > On 10/20/15, Paolo Bolzoni wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I'd like to use fossil in a

Re: [fossil-users] socks proxy fossil sync

2015-10-21 Thread Warren Young
On Oct 20, 2015, at 5:21 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/quickstart.wiki#proxy SOCKS is a completely different protocol from HTTP. It was a common way to allow a privately-addressed LAN access the Internet through a border gateway back in the day

Re: [fossil-users] socks proxy fossil sync

2015-10-21 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said Warren Young on Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:45:33 -0600: > It's basically a dead protocol these days. There is no reason Fossil > should implement it. Wrappers like tsocks are indeed the right way to > use SOCKS in 2015. I don't think it's exactly dead yet. I still find it quite convenient t