[Savannah-cvs] administration/content/gnu-content/faq CVS_-_Ho...

[Sylvain Beucler]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/administration
Module name:    administration
Branch:         
Changes by:     Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>        05/03/27 17:09:14

Modified files:
        content/gnu-content/faq: 
                                 
CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt 

Log message:
        Removed <A> tags since it appears to be automagically done by the
        system.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/administration/administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt.diff?tr1=1.1&tr2=1.2&r1=text&r2=text

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administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt
diff -u 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt:1.1
 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt:1.2
--- 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt:1.1
  Sun Mar 27 10:16:07 2005
+++ 
administration/content/gnu-content/faq/CVS_-_How_can_I_access_a_repository_from_behind_a_firewall_or_proxy.txt
      Sun Mar 27 17:09:14 2005
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@
 <p>You should know, however, that it is possible to bypass such a
 setup by two ways:</p>
 
-<ul><li><p>First, systems like Tor (<a
-href="http://tor.eff.org";>http://tor.eff.org</a>) can be used, at the
-price of a decreased connection speed, to redirect your traffic to any
-public computer, and any port, provided you have outgoing access to
-port 80 (http) and 443 (https) - which I think anybody have whatever their 
setup. As
-of 2005-03-27, it does not work from behind a proxy, but it is a
-matter of development, not a technology limitation.</p>
+<ul><li><p>First, systems like Tor (http://tor.eff.org) can be used,
+at the price of a decreased connection speed, to redirect your traffic
+to any public computer, and any port, provided you have outgoing
+access to port 80 (http) and 443 (https) - which I think anybody have
+whatever their setup. As of 2005-03-27, it does not work from behind a
+proxy, but it is a matter of development, not a technology
+limitation.</p>
 
 <p>Therefore, limiting outgoing traffic with per-protocol rules cannot
 be effectively done. Moreover, a lot of websites now use HTTPs, a
@@ -35,17 +35,16 @@
 discover what the user is actually doing. Preventing HTTPs traffic is
 not an option, unless the system administrator wants to prevent access
 to all e-commerce websites, as well as websites that only use HTTPs
-such as Gna! (<a href="https://gna.org";>https://gna.org</a>).</p></li>
+such as Gna! (https://gna.org).</p></li>
 
 <li><p>The other way to bypass a restrictive setup requires a bit of
 work from the remote host administrators. Basically he opens the same
 service but on port 443 (https). This removes the proxy and speed
-limitation from the above. This is used, for example, by OVH (see <a
-href="http://help.ovh.com/EmailConfigurationAOLouTELE2/";>http://help.ovh.com/EmailConfigurationAOLouTELE2/</a>)
-so that people can send mail even if their ISP block port 25
-(smtp). We also setup CVS over SSH on port 443 (https) in addition to
-port 22 (ssh) to allow people to access our CVS repositories.</p></li>
-</ul>
+limitation from the above. This is used, for example, by OVH (see
+http://help.ovh.com/EmailConfigurationAOLouTELE2/) so that people can
+send mail even if their ISP block port 25 (smtp). We also setup CVS
+over SSH on port 443 (https) in addition to port 22 (ssh) to allow
+people to access our CVS repositories.</p></li> </ul>
 
 <p>In conclusion, remote outgoing traffic is a burden for us, the
 Savannah hackers, and does not bring any real value.</p>
@@ -57,8 +56,8 @@
 <p>Now let's see how to access our CVS services using any of those
 methods.</p>
 
-<ul><li><p>Tor (check <a
-href="http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#head-617feae632f5e2f957b45f1b3701b3d1c0ce41b7";>http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#head-617feae632f5e2f957b45f1b3701b3d1c0ce41b7</a>
+<ul><li><p>Tor (check
+http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO#head-617feae632f5e2f957b45f1b3701b3d1c0ce41b7
 for more information). This method can be used to access any remote
 CVS repository. Here are instructions for a Debian GNU/Linux-based
 distribution:</p>
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@
 
 ProxyCommand connect -S localhost:9050 %h %p
 EOF
-# Install Tor. Check <a 
href="http://tor.eff.org/download.html";>http://tor.eff.org/download.html</a> 
for more information
+# Install Tor. Check http://tor.eff.org/download.html for more information
 apt-get install tor
 # Configure Tor
 cat &lt;&lt;EOF &gt;&gt; /etc/tor/torrc
@@ -136,4 +135,4 @@
 </pre>
 </li></ul>
 
-<p style="font-size: smaller">Update $Date: 2005/03/27 10:16:07 $</p>
+<p style="font-size: smaller">Update $Date: 2005/03/27 17:09:14 $</p>