# Plugin install behind corporate firewall?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 27, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177 "2006-01-27T17:21:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erubin)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 5:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177/1 "2006-01-27T17:21:11Z")

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Hi all,

Anybody has a clue on how to install a plugin behind a corporate  
firewall? I  
know the “-p” option works for installing a ruby gem thru a proxy, but  
it  
doesn’t seem to work for script/plugin install

Thanks

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**Author:** ![erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erubin)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177/2 "2006-01-27T19:43:34Z")

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Hi Eric.

script/plugin is just wrapper for ‘svn’ function. You should check that  
svn  
works for you in this case.

svn co \<URL\_TO\_PLUGIN\_SVN\>

If not then check “$HOME\Application Data\Subversion\servers” file (for  
windows) and configure proxy settings for subversion.  
But if it would not work after that you could try to use https// instead  
of  
http:// protocol. In some cases it helps.

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**Author:** ![erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erubin)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 10:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177/3 "2006-01-30T10:44:33Z")

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Thank you for your help Anatol. It worked as advertised 😉

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**Author:** ![erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erubin)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 9:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177/4 "2006-02-05T09:53:10Z")

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I tried to do plugins a while back but ran into problems because of not  
having svn. From  
my limited examination/understanding of the code in plugin.rb it looked  
like it’s supposed  
to gracefully handle NOT having svn… but that certainly doesn’t seem  
to work.

Can anyone answer this once and for all? Is svn a absolute requirement  
for using plugins?  
And if so, why? (since one of the beauties of subversion is it’s easy to  
get going over  
http…)

b

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**Author:** ![erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/82dd89/32.png) [@erubin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/erubin)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/plugin-install-behind-corporate-firewall/53177/5 "2006-02-05T08:29:01Z")

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My works firewall blocks svn (dav methods). Is there any way to install  
plugins by http? I know the code checks for svn and should download by  
http  
if subversion is not installed but I have it installed for intranet  
access  
which isn’t blocked by the proxy. How can I say I want to use http  
download?

Thanks