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Please add support for accessing CVS on eclipse.org from inside a firewall. SourceForge already supports this and is very useful for helping committers/contributors from other companies to work with us.
*** Bug 9149 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
SourceForge now provides access to CVS over ports 80 and 443. To enable access over a firewall, SourceForge only needs to use the local proxy configuration for those ports.
To be more precise: Sourceforge provides _anonymous_ access through ports 443 and 80 to its repository. I had to use a hack (local server) to access CVS anonymously through our firewall. Extension of the SSH2 functionality to entire CVS connections would be very useful.
We have created a redirection host for cvs and shell services. For cvs services use the following host/port combo proxy.eclipse.org / 80 for ssh shell services use proxy.eclipse.org /443 more info can be found at the following URL http://dev.eclipse.org/cvshowto.html
*** Bug 102654 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is a step in the right direction. However, this is only useful for pservers access for people whose firewalls directly pass through traffic on port 80. Those that are stuck using HTTP proxies are still out of luck for pserver access.
*** Bug 70202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please re-open this bug. Granted, the original request doesn't state what type of firewall, but supporting connections over a HTTP proxy would be appreciated. Eclipse already provides SSH access to CVS through a HTTP proxy. Would it be so difficult to provide SSH access to the Eclipse CVS repository for everyone, not just committers? (Granted, such access would still be read-only...)
It's been almost a year with no visible activity, and there are 11 votes sitting on this bug. Can this be re-opened, or does a new bug need to be entered?
Bump. I just realized that cvs.dev.java.net provides an anonymous SSH for use as a tunnel to their actual CVS pserver on the same host. Everyone logs in with the same user/pass through SSH, then authenticates regularly to CVS, either as anonymous or with their dev.java.net account. As a follow-up to my comment #8, could something similar be provided here?
Given that SSH allows arbitrary port forwarding this is not a secure setup in our network configuration. Also, this bug is closed, which is why no one was responding. If you want something beyond the original scope of the bug please open a different one. Thanks.
(Started bug 227831 to address the remaining commented issues...)
