[xmlroff] svn access over http(s)?

[Tony Graham]

On Wed, Mar 12 2008 12:57:45 +0000, asmodai at in-nomine.org wrote:
> -On [20080312 13:39], lode leroy (lode.leroy at gmail.com) wrote:
>>The page http://xmlroff.org/wiki/Subversion lists only an svn:// type url,
>>but that's not possible for me :-(
>
> Check out $HOME/.subversion/servers
>
> The bottom part shows how to use http proxy servers for svn. I am guessing
> this is what you are running into?

AFAICT [1], those settings are only useful for "HTTP-based Subversion
requests", which I take to be for servers that are ordinarily accessible
with http: URLs, and not for svn: URLs.

The word from Patric Stout of ISeeR, the xmlroff.org webhost, is that
access over http: is not possible.

Regards,


Tony.

[1] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.servers