no pserver access from behind firewall

[eric ehlers]

Hi All,

Following the move to their new infrastructure, SourceForge have
quietly stopped providing an alternate port number for pserver access,
meaning that anonymous cvs access is no longer possible for those of
us at sites where traffic is blocked on the standard port (2401).

As mentioned previously SF do continue to provide an alternate port
for ext (developer) access from behind a firewall.

Regards,
Eric

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Date: May 22, 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: [ alexandria-Support Requests-1489428 ] pserver access via proxy
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Support Requests item #1489428, was opened at 2006-05-16 06:12
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Category: Project CVS Services
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Eric Ehlers (ericehlers)
>Assigned to: David Burley (burley)
Summary: pserver access via proxy

Initial Comment:
Hello,

Prior to the recent hardware failures, I was able to
access CVS anonymously via my employer's proxy server
like so:

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe"
"-d:pserver;proxy=xxx;proxyport=xxx;proxyuser=xxx;proxypassword=xxx:[hidden email]:443/cvsroot/xxx"
login

Since the upgrade to the new infrastructure I can't
figure out how to access CVS anonymously via a proxy.

Normal pserver access would now be via
PROJECTNAME.cvs.sourceforge.net on port 2401.  For
those of us behind a firewall, and using a proxy, I
guess you would provide an alternate port and/or
hostname?  The docs indicate an alternate port for SSH
but I can't see any mention of an alternate port for
pserver and I can't figure out what it is.  For example
the following command ...

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe"
"-d:pserver;proxy=xxx;proxyport=xxx;proxyuser=xxx;proxypassword=xxx:[hidden email]:443/cvsroot/quantlib"
login

... fails with this error:

cvs.exe [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response
from xxx.cvs.sourceforge.net: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.9p1

It looks like your port 443 is expecting access via SSH
- whereas under the old infrastructure, port 443 on
cvs-pserver.sourceforge.net accepted HTTP access which
was simply redirected.

Please note that I _am_ able to access the new
infrastructure via developer/SSH from behind my
employer's firewall/proxy.  It's only anonymous/pserver
access that I can't figure out.

Many thanks for any assistance that you are able to
provide.

Kind Regards,
Eric

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>Comment By: David Burley (burley)
Date: 2006-05-22 13:49

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Greetings,

We no longer provide an alternate port for pserver, given
that all the good ports are already taken on the host. You
should contact your network administrator and ask them to
open port 2401 up.

Thank you,

David Burley
Quality of Service Analyst, SourceForge.net

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