How to configure a HTTP proxy for svn

Question

I want to check code from the repository http://code.sixapart.com/svn/perlbal/ . I can only access the the repository url by setting a proxy. I guess if I want to get the code from the same URL by svn I need to configure a proxy, too. So does anyone of you could tell me how to configure a HTTP proxy in svn?

By the way, I use the command-line svn client under Linux.

Answer 1

There are two common approaches for this:

• Specify http-proxy- options in your /etc/.subversion/servers or %APPDATA%\Subversion\servers file,

• Use --config-option command-line option to specify the same http-proxy- options in single command-line you run. For example,

  svn checkout ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-host=<PROXY-HOST> ^
  --config-option servers:global:http-proxy-port=<PORT> <REPO-URL> <LWC-DIR> 
  

If you are on Windows, you can also write http-proxy- options to Windows Registry. It's pretty handy if you need to apply proxy settings in Active Directory environment via Group Policy Objects.

Answer 2

Most *nixen understand the environment variable 'http_proxy' when performing web requests.

export http_proxy=http://my-proxy-server.com:8080/
svn co http://code.sixapart.com/svn/perlball/

should do the trick. Most http libraries check for this (and other) environment variables.

Answer 3

In TortoiseSVN you can configure the proxy server under Settings=> Network

Answer 4

You can find the instructions here. Basically you just add

[global]
http-proxy-host = ip.add.re.ss
http-proxy-port = 3128
http-proxy-compression = no

to your ~/.subversion/servers file.

Answer 5

Have you seen the FAQ entry What if I'm behind a proxy??

... edit your "servers" configuration file to indicate which proxy to use. The files location depends on your operating system. On Linux or Unix it is located in the directory "~/.subversion". On Windows it is in "%APPDATA%\Subversion". (Try "echo %APPDATA%", note this is a hidden directory.)

For me this involved uncommenting and setting the following lines:

#http-proxy-host=my.proxy
#http-proxy-port=80
#http-proxy-username=[username]
#http-proxy-password=[password]

Answer 6

In windows 7, you may have to edit this file

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Subversion\servers

[global]
http-proxy-host = ip.add.re.ss
http-proxy-port = 3128