From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:38:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] http: try http_proxy env var when http.proxy config option is not set
Message-ID: <7vty28knmz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120301210129.GD17631@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> When we need to authenticate for the destination webserver, we detect an
> HTTP 401, _then_ ask for the credentials, and retry the request. I'm
> curious what the error condition is for the authentication failure, and
> if we can do the same here.

Yeah, that would be ideal.