From: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:29:07 GMT
Subject: Re: Problems Fetching from HTTP?
Message-ID: <20100401162907.GA3783@inner.home.ulmdo.de>
In-Reply-To: <v2xc115fd3c1004010803g98a279e8mf395a0d14be4f6bd@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:03:20 +0000, Tim Visher wrote:
...
>     error: Failed connect to git.kernel.org:80; Connection refused
> while accessing http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/info/refs
> 
>     fatal: HTTP request failed
> 
> What could be going on here?  I can't pull from `git://` as I'm behind
> a firewall.

It pretty much looks like the firewall doesn't let you directly access
HTTP as well. You may need to use your proxy, and you (seem to) need to
set the environment variable 'http_proxy="http://10.0.0.1:3128"' to
point to your proxy. Google will take you from there, like
http://rip747.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/git-clone-over-http-who-knew/

Andreas