Re: CVS from Syria (proxied)

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 09:33, Armelle Nedelec wrote:
> I have the same problem.
> First you have to have a CVS client which allow to configure a proxy 
> (not all do), because in Syria you cannot go to internet without using 
> the Proxy.
> After that, the firewall of the ISPs in Syria block nearly all the port, 
> so that the reason why you cannot connect to port 2401 (CVS one).
> 
> Sourceforge offer a CVS server on port 80 (The port of the web). I tried 
>   it and get "HTTP tunneling not permitted". This is not with your ISP, 
> but the other one.
> I didn't get further as for the moment I still didn't manage to connect 
> to the other ISP (thank you for the help last time) with Linux, and the 
> hack someone gave me works with Linux.
> Hope we can manage to solve this problem.

You know it would be helpful to let me know if the links I sent you were
what solved your problem -- this is especially that it is not specific
to you and others would probably find it useful.

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir