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Posted to commits@subversion.apache.org by rh...@apache.org on 2013/12/08 21:30:35 UTC

svn commit: r1549208 - /subversion/site/publish/faq.html

Author: rhuijben
Date: Sun Dec  8 20:30:34 2013
New Revision: 1549208

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1549208
Log:
* publish/faq.html
  Remove some outdated comments on how Subversion was once hosted at
  svn.collab.net. Remove '--with-ssl' comment as that was '--with-openssl'
  for years, and even that was removed some time ago.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/faq.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/faq.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/faq.html?rev=1549208&r1=1549207&r2=1549208&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/faq.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/faq.html Sun Dec  8 20:30:34 2013
@@ -885,25 +885,19 @@ through your proxy.</p>
 <p>If it's difficult or impossible to get the proxy to allow
 Subversion traffic, but you want to check out the Subversion sources,
 you may be able to go around the proxy.  Some proxies that filter port
-80 nevertheless allow anything on port 81.  For this reason, the
-<tt>svn.collab.net</tt> repository server listens on port 81 as well
-as on port 80.  Try:</p>
-
-<pre>
-   svn checkout http://svn.collab.net:81/repos/svn/trunk subversion
-</pre>
-
-<p>and maybe the proxy will let you through.  Another strategy is to
-attempt the checkout over SSL, which many proxies allow:</p>
+80 nevertheless allow anything on port 81.  In many other cases proxies
+don't filter https as strict as they filter http. The <tt>svn.apache.org</tt>
+repository server listens on https as well as http.  Try:</p>
 
 <pre>
    svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk subversion
 </pre>
 
+<p>and maybe the proxy will let you through.</p>
+
 <p>Of course, your svn client will have to have been built with ssl
-support; just pass <tt>--with-ssl</tt> to Subversion's
-<tt>./configure</tt> script.  You can check to see whether the 'https'
-scheme is supported by running <tt>svn --version</tt>.</p>
+support.  You can check to see whether the 'https' scheme is supported by
+running <tt>svn --version</tt>.</p>
 
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