Re: manual http authorization (no netrc)

From: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2011, 16:35 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTik2QjOOoOcx0E7NeYEbs3YnLFPbG3x5J2RUFmRU@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <auto-000024252997@sci.utah.edu>

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, tom fogal <tfogal@sci.utah.edu> wrote:

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> I'm getting authorization errors when I lack a .netrc for an http-based
> server.  Specifically:
>
>  tf@shigeru tmp $ git clone http://myhost:port/git/io.git
>  Cloning into io...
>  Username:
>  Password:
>  error: The requested URL returned error: 401 (curl_result = 22, http_code =
>  401, sha1 = 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4)
>  error: Unable to find 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4 under
>  http://shigeru.sci.utah.edu:1234/git/io.git
>  Cannot obtain needed blob 9c201da4d64e2fd178935b9ebbd6e110a97578d4
>  while processing commit b1853d6f6a54cf22e259a75f77770eef53b8cb38.
>  error: Fetch failed.
>
> I did try multiple times; the username/password combo is correct :)

hmm, can you try passing username and password in this manner

  http://<user>:<pwd>@server:port/

Also, does your username/password contain special, non-alphanumeric characters? I remember there was a change to how we handled those some time ago.

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Cheers,
Ray Chuan