{"id":106,"date":"2005-09-01T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-09-06T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T17:37:31","slug":"this-should-have-been-simpler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2005\/this-should-have-been-simpler\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Sourceforge CVS access through proxy using TortoiseCVS"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTE: This is now out of date, see the update here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in open source at all, you don’t want to be without Sourceforge, where a lot of the world’s open source code resides. Strangely, it’s not obvious how to get code from Sourceforge if you’re behind a firewall that doesn’t have port 80, 443 or 2401 wide open. In other words, half of corporate America can’t access open source “out of the box”.<\/p>\n

There are actually two ways to get code from Sourceforge. As a project developer with write permission, you use the CVS :ext: protocol, which tunnels through SSH. For anonymous access to anyone else’s code, you have to use the :pserver: protocol. Sourceforge has ports 80, 443 and 2401 (the default) set up for pserver.<\/p>\n

With TortoiseCVS, you can do pretty much anything you need to with ext, because TortoiseCVS uses Putty for SSH, and Putty can use an HTTP proxy. Just specify a fully-configured Putty session name instead of a server when using :ext: under TortoiseCVS, and TortoiseCVS lets Putty use the session to set up the SSH connection.<\/p>\n

I love TortoiseCVS, but at first blush it looks like it won’t do the job for anonymous Sourceforge access – you need pserver over an HTTP proxy and there are no TortoiseCVS settings for that. Fortunately, WinCVS fills this requirement. When you select Remote->Checkout Module, right there you can add the proxy information. Here comes the code! Rockin’!<\/p>\n

But hold on! When WinCVS builds the pserver host string, it adds your proxy information in the following format:<\/p>\n

CVSROOT=:pserver;username=anonymous;hostname=cvs.sourceforge.net;proxy=yourproxy.com;proxyport=##:\/cvsroot\/yourmodule<\/p>\n

It appears that TortoiseCVS can actually use this format, now that it’s in the CVS\/Root file, even though it’s not documented. Go to the CVS directory that WinCVS created, and you should be able to use the tortoise now! I suppose with a little manual copying\/editing, you could set up CVS\/Root files yourself and bypass the need for WinCVS, but I haven’t tried that yet. I recommend just kicking things off with WinCVS, it’s a breeze.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Under linux, the format is like this:<\/p>\n

CVSROOT=:pserver;proxy=yourproxy.com;proxyport=##:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:\/cvsroot\/yourmodule<\/p>\n

Don’t ask me why it’s different! Yuck. But these formats are working under Windows and linux. Go get some code!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTE: This is now out of date, see the update here. If you’re interested in open source at all, you don’t want to be without Sourceforge, where a lot of the world’s open source code resides. Strangely, it’s not obvious how to get code from Sourceforge if you’re behind a firewall that doesn’t have port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t