[Ffmpeg-devel] firewalls and svn access

[Mohammad A. Haque]

On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:54 AM, David Capel wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 11:51 -0400, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
>> On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
>>
>>> Since I'm already providing mplayer snapshots:
>>>
>>> http://www.haque.net/software/ffmpeg/svn-snapshots/
>>>
>>> Enjoy.
>>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2006, at 11:32 AM, David Capel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear repository maintainers,
>>>>
>>>> Several users on the ffmpeg-user list have noted that they are
>>>> unable to
>>>> access the ffmpeg (or mplayer) svn repository via the standard svn
>>>> port
>>>> (3690) due to their institutional or corporate firewall.
>>>>
>>>> Request to sys admins regarding opening "unusual" ports tend to go
>>>> via /dev/null. Since ffmpeg repository snapshots are no longer
>>>> available, this part of the ffmpeg/mplayer user base is stuck out
>>>> in the
>>>> cold.
>>>>
>>>> Please consider configuring the svn server to accept requests on an
>>>> additional, standard port (443?). Otherwise, perhaps the nightly
>>>> snapshots could be reinstated?
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully,
>>>> D.
>>
>>
>> And sorry about top posting
>
> Nice one, Mohammad. That's very gracious of you. I'm still hoping that
> the maintainers will consider fixing this problem at source though.
>
> D.

I asked on one of the lists a while back (I think it was the mplayer- 
dev list) and they didn't want to deal with running apache and the  
security implications surrounding the setup. Don't know if that has  
changed.

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