Re: [Boost-testing] How to access new boost SVN repository?

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-16 03:58:52

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

[...]

> Perhaps we need to add a section to the Wiki to help people who are  
> behind firewalls.
> 
> I added this to my .subversion/servers file to access svn from behind  
> our firewall.
> 
> [groups]
> boost = svn.boost.org
> 
> [boost]
> http-proxy-host = proxy.sandia.gov
> http-proxy-port = 80
> 
> You'll need to customize this for your own site, of course.

Do you know how to get this to work for a proxy requiring NTLM 
authentication? This isn't supported by SVN, or is it?

I'm thinking about using a local proxy doing the authentication stuff 
like so:

      HTTP(S)              HTTP(S)                HTTP(S)
SVN <------> Local Proxy <------> Company Proxy <------> SVN Server
                            NTLM

But I have no idea if this will actually work, and I will still need 
to use HTTPS because of the WebDAV protocol used by SVN.

And besides, I would need to replace the public SSH key used for CVS 
access by a password (for NTLM) stored in plain text in a 
configuration file which is rather bad.

Markus