[MacPorts] howto/SyncingWithSVN modified

[Rainer Müller]

On 2015-06-16 22:47, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2015, at 4:24 PM, MacPorts <noreply at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> Page "howto/SyncingWithSVN" was changed by rogerpack2005 at gmail.com
>> Diff URL: <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SyncingWithSVN?action=diff&version=15>
>> Revision 15
>> Comment: the proxy stuff is not needed if you checked out from HTTPS initially. At least it wasn't for me...
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>> Index: howto/SyncingWithSVN
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>> --- howto/SyncingWithSVN (version: 14)
>> +++ howto/SyncingWithSVN (version: 15)
>> @@ -55,21 +55,20 @@
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>> === Step 3: '''Configure Subversion''' ===
>>
>> -First, tell subversion to use your proxy to connect to the server:
>> +First, tell subversion to use your proxy to connect to the server.  This should not be necessary if your initial SVN checkout was from an http or https URL, so most people should not have to do this.
> 
> Is this accurate?

HTTPS traffic cannot be inspected/altered. Often a proxy is not
necessary for HTTPS even if you have to use one for HTTP.

Doesn't macports1.0 always use the system proxy anyway?

Rainer