Re: Can't get git clone over https with proxy and invalid certificate...

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 8, 2008, 14:28 UTC
Message-ID: <20080808142819.GJ28749@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <c475e2e60808080448x40683db1wadcd834e94d7d263@mail.gmail.com>

Giovanni Funchal <gafunchal@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ok, so I have created the following ~/.curlrc:
>    netrc
>    proxytunnel
>    insecure
>    proxy = http://proxyserver.com:8080
>    proxy-user = proxyuser:proxypassword

...

> $ git clone https://remoteuser@remoteserver.com/.git/
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/.git/
> error: Proxy requires authorization!
> warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.

Last time I used Git with an HTTP proxy that required authentication I was doing it with an environment variable:

  http_proxy=http://me:pass@proxyserver.com:8080 git clone ...

Fortunately this was on a Windows desktop where I was the only user who was logged into the system, so leaking my password into my environment for a short duration was about the same risk as putting into a ~/. file.

-- 
Shawn.