If you try to access a subversion repository over http while using a 3G connection from three.co.uk you may receive an error message like.
svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/repos'
svn: Processing PROPFIND request response failed: Premature end of file. (/repos)
This is because three.co.uk uses a proxy to interecept web traffic on their network.
This proxy does not understand all the commands that are used by subversion.
It is perfectly possible to access subversion repositories through a proxy - just not through the one at three.co.uk.
Three only filter traffic on port 80 - the standard web port. Well, at least as far as I can tell that's all they do.
So if you can set up subversion to access a different proxy - one that does play nice - then you can access your repository over your 3G connection.
Under Linux the subversion proxy settings are in the file:
~/.subversion/serversJust add settings as below:
[global]
http-proxy-host = www.exaple.com
http-proxy-port = 3128
http-proxy-username = nobody
http-proxy-password = secret
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more steps needed for commit access
I recently found that the above steps only provide browse access - to commit see
Configure Squid proxy server for subversion access
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