Anonymous (read-only) GCC SVN access through a firewall

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:12:54PM -0800, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> I have been trying to help someone who does not have write access to the
> GCC tree get read-only access to the GCC SVN repository through a
> firewall.
> 
> Now, I can get through the firewall but I check things out via svn+ssh,
> using my account on gcc.gnu.org.  And there seem to be lots of ssh proxy
> tricks out there (corkscrew, etc) to help, but all of these proxy
> methods seem to be based on ssh.  The standard anonymous checkout for
> GCC is:
> 
> 	svn co svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk gcc
> 
> It does not use ssh.  And as far as I can tell a user without write
> permission (without an account on gcc.gnu.org) doesn't have a way to use
> ssh to access the GCC tree.  Is that correct?  So how does he or she do
> a checkout if the above method doesn't work due to a firewall?  Are they
> just out of luck?

I'm in the same situation at work, which is why gcc-testresults no
longer gets daily tests from me.

At one time, Daniel Berlin mentioned that he was looking at enabling
HTTP-based read-only access.  Any progress on that, Daniel?