[Qgis-developer] More git troubles ...

[Andreas Neumann]

>>  Not a very nice solution, but at least it works ...
>
> Just a side note: I wonder why it is so difficult to access
> non-standard ports and services related to work activities.
>
> Even if they are blocked by default, it should be easy to unblock 
> them,
> once the motivation is clear...

 well - basically the only ports I have open are port 80 and 443. In 
 addition, our proxy is filtering/censoring certain websites (f.e. Paul 
 Ramsey's blog, for some reason is classified as evil and censored). If 
 an SSL-certificate is invalid, then the server is completely blocked. 
 SSL certificates are a bit expensive and cumbersome to install/maintain. 
 For that reason, some OS projects have invalid SSL certificates, which 
 means I cannot access them.

 Theoretically rules could be changed, but it would take weeks/months to 
 process and would require voting by the responsible persons. So 
 basically it means I have to live with the current situation (proxy and 
 ports 80/443). I have one option of opening ssh connections on port 443 
 to a server in the outside world. This allows to tunnel other ports, but 
 it is often a pain to set up ...

 Unfortunately, in our government environment, security is the top 
 requirement and functionality comes second ... I don't know why.

 Andreas

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