using CVS through Proxy.. How?

[Mike Klinke]

On Monday 15 March 2004 00:39, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> 	Does anyone here has any inclination on how to get CVS
> to work through a proxy server??
>
> I've combed through the cvshome page and only found some references
> in dev-http.txt (which dates back to 1999) that has some semblance
> to proxy support using
>
> cvs -d
> :pserver;proxy=www;proxtport=8080:me at there.somedomain:/somereposito
>ry
>
 
I think the above syntax is only useful for WinCVS.  

>From the FAQ on cvshome; http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/85.html 
there is a link to "proxytunnel"; 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/proxytunnel/.  Is this something you 
can use?

This thread also discussed some other alternatives; 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1998-07/msg00649.html

Regards,  Mike Klinke