Re: [Savannah-help-public] Access to Savannah thru http?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello address@hidden (I don't know your name),

Richard Stallman told the GNU Savannah hackers that some universities
have troubles to connect to our CVS service, because they use
restrictive outgoing traffic firewall filtering rules.

We are considering adding an SSH daemon that would listen on a port
allowed by such firewall.

However, depending on this outgoing traffic filtering, this may or may
not work.

We would like to get more information about this issue, and RMS told
us you could help. Can you explain the issue in detail to us? Would
providing CVS over SSH access using a port different than 22 help?

-- 
Sylvain

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:15:44AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     If it is just a matter of port number, and if we have a spare IP at
>     gnu.org, I think we could provide a similar way to do the
>     job.
> 
> I don't know what it takes to bypass these firewalls.  I was at these
> places for a couple of days each, so I cannot check them now.
> However, address@hidden could perhaps tell you more.
> Maybe he can find out what those firewalls allow.
> 
> If something as a simple as supporting another port number solves the
> problem, let's do so.  Be sure to include full instructions for use of
> this method in the instructions for user access, so that the people
> who need this can find it.