Re: [Fwd: Socks support in CVS]

[Derek Robert Price]

Larry Jones wrote:

> Derek Robert Price writes:
>  
>
> >  Anyone else have an opinion on or want to handle this?  I haven't 
> > dealt with SOCKS in 6 years and my knowledge was pretty peripheral back 
> > then.
> >    
>
> It was considered and rejected years ago, just about the time I became a
> developer.  I had added SOCKS 4/5 detection to configure and
> corresponding code to CVS.  Jim Kingdon talked me out of committing it
> since there were existing tools (runsocks and SocksCap) that allowed
> unmodified clients to run through a SOCKS server.  See the Networking
> and Security info page (in fact, my original SOCKS 4 patch is still
> there): <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/infonetsecurity.html>.
>  

Sounds like a good argument to me.  Thanks, Larry.

Derek

--
               *8^)

Email: derek@ximbiot.com

Get CVS support at <http://ximbiot.com>!
--
If you can read this, please flip me back over... (seen upside down, on a Jeep)