From: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:13:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetch via http and proxy which requires authentication
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30811040313x44290557yecfedb2fbc8cad0b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c94f8e120811030602p57007278p5a2c48ce7663282d@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Paolo Ciarrocchi
> <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> i'm looking for a way to use git behind a corporate proxy which
>>> requires authentication.
>>> i just need to be able to fetch/pull via http.
>>> i'm using git on a win xp box.
>>> Any hint?
>>
>> Yes, google for  http_proxy ;-)
>>
>> export http_proxy=http://host:port
>> git clone http://username:password@giturl
>
> I tried setting, export http_proxy=http://<user>:<password>@host:port
>
> But git clone failed!
>
> $git clone http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git git
> clone http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dilipm/bin/linux-2.6/.git/
> fatal:
> http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/info/refs
> download error - The requested file was not found
>
> What may the problem?  How can debug....

Works for me:
$ git version
git version 1.6.0.2.1172.ga5ed0

I set in the Environment Variables panel:

Variable          Value
http_proxy      http://ip_of_my_proxy

Regards,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/