[Discuss] server certificates for the https protocol

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2008-01-28 14:17-0800 John Blomfield wrote:

> My first observation is that you are trying to svn 
> commit, and to do this to a sourceforge server, you probably have to be 
> approved by the project group that you are working on??  You can normally 
> 'checkout' or 'update' anonymously but permission is required to 'commit'.  I 
> assume you have this permission?

Yes.  The commit proceeds fine after I hit the "t" command for temporary
workaround for the problem.  But that gets tiresome.  FYI, svn uses the
https protocol to make mildly secure commits.  At SF (and perhaps all other
svn sites?), you must go through an authentication procedure for the first
commit, but then the authentication information is stored locally on your
machine which allows avoiding the authentication for subsequent commits.
That is likely a security no-no, but a nice convenience.

Alan

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